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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Ismail Shakil and Anna Mehler Paperny

Inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting criticises police, urges reform

Commission chair Michael MacDonald, Commissioners Leanne Fitch and Kim Stanton address family, friends and the public as the Mass Casualty Commission delivers its final report into the April 2020 mass shootings, when a gunman who at one point masqueraded as a police officer caused country's worst mass shooting during a 12-hour rampage, in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Ingrid Bulmer

Officials tasked with reviewing Canada's worst mass shooting called for sweeping police reforms, stricter gun safety regulations and better public communication on Thursday after an investigation found many shortcomings in authorities' response to the 2020 incident.

In April 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, shot and killed 22 people in a 13-hour rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before police killed him at a gas station about 90 km (60 miles) from the site of his first killings in Portapique.

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