4 injured in Canada shooting

A shooting that sent four people to hospital and another gun-related incident

forced thousands of students at two Montreal area colleges to go into lockdown on Friday.

At 5.30pm local time, gunshots rang out at a park across the street from Montmorency College in the Montreal suburb of Laval, police spokeswoman Genevieve Major told AFP.

Four people who had been shot sought refuge at the college and were later taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The college remained locked down into the evening as police swarmed the area in search of the shooter. Mayor Stephane Boyer tweeted that a police operation was ‘ underway’, while television footage showed par

ents of students crowding the roads around the college after

they rushed to the scene.