Ottawa: From Sri Lanka the 6 dead of the massacre – also slaughtered a 2.5-month-old infant

Immigrants from Sri Lanka were his victims who became late Wednesday night (07.03.2024) in a suburb of her announced tonight Canadian capital police. Police officers arrived in this neighborhood of Ottawa around 11 on Wednesday night after neighbors’ calls, and found the horror of the massacre. They saw a 35-year-old mother, her four children – a two-and-a-half-month-old infant, two girls 4 and 2 years old, and a 7-year-old boy – as well as a 40-year-old friend of the family. Father was severely injured in a hospital. Canadian capital mayor Mark Sutcliffe spoke of one of the most appalling crimes “in the history of the city”, in posting him on social media. “It is obviously a horrible setting,” police chief Eric Stubbs told the CBC network, clarifying that the attack was committed with a sharp object, “probably knife”. 19-year-old Febrio De Zusa, also from Sri Lanka, was arrested as the prime suspect and charged. Mass killings are rare in Canada. In December 2022 a man shot and killed five people in a suburb of Toronto, before falling dead from police fire. In September of that same year, a man had stabbed 11 people to death in Saskatchewan Province. The perpetrator died of a cocaine overdose shortly after his arrest.