- Toronto police searched for an active shooter who killed two and wounded three Saturday night
- The shooting occurred in a commercial area hosting a salsa festival with shops and restaurants
- Police advised the public to avoid the area and comply with all police instructions
Police in Toronto were searching Saturday night for an active shooter who had killed two people and wounded three in an area lined with shops and restaurants.
"Please avoid the area immediately and follow all directions from police," Toronto police said in an X post.
"Police have secured the scene," authorities later said in a follow-up post.
Local media reported the shooting took place in an area where a salsa festival was being held.
The incident comes soon after another shooting in Montreal late last month, where two people, including a police officer, were killed by an assailant who was then shot dead by law enforcement.
In February, a school shooting in the small western mining town of Tumbler Ridge killed eight people, including the shooter's mother and half brother, and injured 27 before she took her own life.
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