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A shooting that sent four people to hospital and another gun-related incident forced thousands of students at two Montreal-area universities into lockdown on Friday.
Police spokesman Genevieve Major told AFP that at 5:30 p.m. local time (2230 GMT), gunshots rang out in a park across the street from the College of Lavalmont in the Montreal suburb of Lavalmont.
The four who were shot took refuge at the academy and were later taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The college, which has nearly 10,000 students and staff, was locked down into the night as police swarmed the area in search of the gunman.
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Mayor Stephen Boyer said on Twitter that police were “operating”, while television footage showed parents of students crowding the roads around the school after they arrived at the scene.
Earlier, a 19-year-old man wearing a bulletproof vest was arrested at a junior college 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Montreal and charged with making threats.
Students and staff at Cegep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu told local media they were ordered to barricade the classrooms and turn off the lights for most of the day while police were operating outside.
“We were very scared at first,” student Alejandra Montequin told CBC Global News. “It was very stressful and people were talking to their parents.”
Quebec’s public safety minister Francois Bonnardel tweeted that the students in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu “experiencing a difficult situation today.”
“I am relieved by the turn of events,” he said, adding that he would wait for the outcome of the police investigation “to fully understand what happened”.
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