Search Heavily armed police units in the Canadian city of Moncton for a man who allegedly shot three police officers. Images show the 24-year-olds with assault rifle and military camouflage clothing.

In the western Canadian province of New Brunswick, a gunman shot and killed three policemen. This was confirmed by a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Two others were injured in the incident in the city of Moncton. You are not in mortal danger.

Per Twitter released the police of New Brunswick a photo of the alleged offender in military camouflage clothing. In his hand the man is wearing an assault rifle on his back another weapon. The population was asked to stay in their homes until the man was caught. The backgrounds are indeed unclear.

According to a police spokesperson, there had been on Thursday evening (local time) an emergency call, after a gunman had been seen in the city. Then the officials were disengaged.

“We are now looking for the shooter,” said the spokesman. Where the offender is to be a 24-year-old from Moncton, a city of about 69,000 inhabitants northeast of Saint John. A report by the “Toronto Star” According looking heavily armed police units in Pinehurst Park to the shooter. These were considered by a densely wooded area.

Canada Gunshot:Hidden in the house with family

Eyewitness Danny Leblanc told the AP news agency that he had seen the man on Wednesday night from a distance, he had stood in the middle of the street and deliberately with his rifle on patrol car. Finally shots were heard. Leblanc had then hidden with his family in the house.

The fact that the shooting killed policemen, have shifted the city in a state of shock, Leblanc said. “It is a disaster. I do not know if he has made hunting them or something.” Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc urged residents to pay attention to the warnings and instructions of the police. “It is a terrible tragedy,” he said.

During shootings and deadly shootings in the neighboring United States now occur regularly, incidents of this kind in Canada are considered rare – especially on the east coast of the country. In fact, a comparable four police officers in 2005 in the province of Alberta had been shot. It was at that time the biggest attack on the Canadian police since 120 years.

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