Suspect’s name is released after mass shootings in city

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Police have identified the suspect in a deadly mass shooting in Toronto as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.

The Ontario police Special Investigations Unit released his name last night. He died after an exchange of gunfire with police on Sunday night.

The attacker fired a handgun into restaurants and cafes in a lively Toronto neighbourhood, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman and wounding 13 other people.

Police have not disclosed his motive. Police chief Mark Saunders said earlier yesterday that investigators did not know it yet.

The family of the suspect later said he suffered from severe mental health problems, but they “could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end”. Hussain’s family expressed condolences in a statement. It said the family was “utterly devastated by the incomprehensible news” that the 29-yearold was responsible for the rampage.

His family said he struggled with psychosis and depression throughout his life and medications and therapy did not work to treat him.

The relatives say their “hearts are in pieces for the victims”.

“It’s almost inconceivable that these things can happen,” said Mayor John Tory.

“We were so used to living in a city where these things didn’t happen and as we saw them going on in the world around us (we) thought they couldn’t happen here.”

“This is an attack against innocent families and our entire city.”

The 13 wounded ranged in age from 10 to 59 and suffered injuries ranging from serious to minor, Mr Saunders said. He did not name the victims, who included eight women and girls and seven men.

A Canadian politician who knew the 18-year-old identified her as Reese Fallon.

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith told CP24 television her devastated family has asked for privacy.

An online Facebook profile said she was a student of McMaster University.

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The district court in Muara Bulian in Jambi province sentenced her 18-year-old brother to two years’ imprisonment for having sex with a minor.

Indonesia only allows abortions in cases of rape and must take place within six weeks of conception. The court said the girl was six months pregnant. Flooding triggered by a tropical storm has killed at least 20 people and left more than a dozen missing in northern Vietnam.

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A flash flood swept through a village in Lang Chanh and carried away a dozen stilt houses.

Survivors escorted from the scene of the shootings