New York, March 10, (dpa/GNA) – Unknown assailants opened fire on the US consulate in Toronto early Tuesday, in what Canadian authorities described as a “national security incident.”
Two men arrived in a car, got out and fired multiple handgun shots at the building in central Toronto, police said. The building was damaged but no injuries were reported.
Police appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Superintendent Chris Leather, deemed the shooting a “national security incident” and said, investigators were still working to find the suspects and determine a motive.
Ontario premier Doug Ford called the shooting “an absolutely unacceptable act of violence and intimidation, aimed at our American friends and neighbours.”
“Everyone at all levels of government and across Canada needs to make clear that there is zero tolerance for this sort of intimidating and dangerous behaviour, and that we will do whatever it takes to prosecute and punish the people responsible to the fullest extent of the law,” he wrote on X.
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