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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police say a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial has been shot by an unknown gunman.
Ottawa police confirmed they had a call at 9:52 a.m. Wednesday with a report of shots fired, and witnesses reported seeing a gunman running toward Parliament Hill, which is under lockdown. Others on the Hill told Canadian Press they heard shots being fired in several different corridors.
The top spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Harper was safe and had left Parliament Hill.
Emergency responders are still on the scene and paramedics took the wounded soldier away in an ambulance.
The incident comes just two days after two Canadian soldiers were run over — and one of them killed — in Quebec by a man with jihadist sympathies.
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