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Canadian police are describing the deaths of members of a Sri Lankan family, including four young children, in Ottawa as a “mass killing”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Police say the six victims were newcomers to Canada, and the youngest was less than three months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka who lived with the family has been charged in the killings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This was a senseless act of violence perpetrated on purely innocent people,” said Ottawa’s police chief on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officers responded to emergency calls placed at approximately 22:52 local time (03:52 GMT) on Wednesday from the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When they arrived, police chief Eric Stubbs said officers quickly identified the suspect, who was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Officers then entered the home and discovered the victims, which included a mother, her four children, and an acquaintance who was living with the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Canadian police are describing the deaths of members of a Sri Lankan family, including four young children, in Ottawa as a “mass killing”. Police say the six victims were newcomers to Canada, and the youngest was less than three months old. A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka who lived with the family has been charged in the killings. “This was a senseless act of violence perpetrated on purely innocent people,” said Ottawa’s police chief on Thursday. Officers responded to emergency calls placed at approximately 22:52 local time (03:52 GMT) on Wednesday from the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven. When… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37975,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37973\/revisions\/37975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}