CANADIAN PM HID IN A CUPBOARD as gunman attacked parliament
24 OCTOBER 2014, (COMPILED FROM A DAILY MAIL, LONDON REPORT) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper who the day after the shooting incident declared in parliament ‘We will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated.’, in fact hid in a cupboard for 15 minutes when the masked gunman stormed Parliament in a terrifying attack that left the nation’s capital on lockdown.
MPs sharpened flagpoles to use as spears and barricaded the doors while Muslim convert Michael ZehafBibeau exchanged dozens of shots with
Zehaf-Bibeau then ran inside the Parliament, where he opened fire before he was shot dead by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms, Kevin Vickers
guards inside Canada’s Parliament building.
He fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old father, as he stood guard at the War Memorial in Ottowa on Wednesday morning.
Zehaf-Bibeau then ran inside the Parliament, where he opened fire before he was shot dead by the House of Commons Sergeant-atArms, Kevin Vickers.
Mr Harper was placed in a cupboard - described as little more than a ‘cubbyhole’ in the Centre Block after the gunfire rang out, the report said.
The Globe and Mail’s source said many MPs had no idea the prime minister was still in the building.
Foreign Minister John Baird said ‘for several minutes it was complete horror, complete terror, we didn’t know whether the door was going to be kicked in, whether there was one or a group of people.’