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Deadly rampage in Canada follows ‘ambush’ of Toronto police officer

Members of the Ontario provincial police pay their respects at the scene where a Toronto Police Officer was killed, in Missisauga, Ontario, on Tuesday.
Members of the Ontario provincial police pay their respects at the scene where a Toronto Police Officer was killed, in Missisauga, Ontario, on Tuesday. Photograph: Arlyn McAdorey/AP

A Toronto police officer was shot dead in an unprovoked “ambush” before a gunman killed another man and left three others with serious injuries in a deadly rampage on Monday afternoon. The suspect was later killed in a cemetery following a standoff with police.

The attacks began around 2pm on Monday, at a Tim Hortons restaurant in the city of Mississauga, west of Toronto. Constable Andrew Hong, a 48-year-old traffic services officer, was on his lunch break from a joint training exercise when he was shot and killed at close range by the gunman. Another person was shot and left with “life-altering” injuries.

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