BREAKING NEWS: Canada: OTTAWA In Lockdown One Gunman Shot Dead Inside Parliament Building, Three On The Loose: *LIVE LINK

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Ottawa is in lockdown as police search for up to three gunmen after one was reportedly shot dead inside Canada's parliament building.
*www.independent.ie/world-news/americas/canada-shooting-soldier-shot-and-gunfire-heard-in-parliament-30684945.html

*www.rte.ie/news/2014/1022/654154-canada-shooting/ 
 
*www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29724907

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Police told the AFP news agency that possibly up to three shooters were feared to be on the roof of the building in the capital.
It came after a soldier guarding a nearby war memorial was wounded after shots were fired.
Shots were also fired near the Rideau Centre Mall less than a mile away, according to police.
Armed forces bases across the country are being closed to the public in the aftermath of the shooting, CBC TV reported.
Peter Henderson, from Ottawa news service The Wire Report, was one of the first people on the scene.
He told Sky News: "It was deserted because people had ran away.
"I ran up, looked around to make sure there was no one with a gun coming at me; ran into the middle and saw a young man, clearly a solider.
"He had been shot multiple times and there was other members of the Canadian forces and bystanders who had rushed to his aid and had begun CPR.
"He was not moving. [The injuries] were as severe as they could possibly have been."
Mr Henderson spoke to one witness who saw the gunman carefully take aim.
"He said the man came around the corner, walked up, put a rifle on his shoulder, took aim and clearly made a targeted shooting of one of the two members of the honour guard," he said.
A construction worker at the parliament told the Reuters news agency he heard a gunshot, and then saw a man dressed in black with a scarf over his face running towards the building with a gun.
Another witness said more than 30 shots were fired inside.
Witness Marc-Andre Viau said he saw a man run into a caucus meeting at the parliament, chased by police who yelled "take cover."
This was followed by "10, 15, maybe 20 shots," possibly from an automatic weapon, he said.
MP John McKay told reporters: "I literally had just taken off my jacket to go into caucus. I hear this 'pop, pop, pop,' possibly 10 shots, (I) don't really know."
Video footage posted by the Global and Mail newspaper showed police crouching for cover as they advanced along a stone hallway, with loud gunfire echoing among the gothic columns.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is safe and has left Parliament Hill.
Some people fled parliament by climbing down scaffolding erected for renovations, witnesses told the Canadian Press news agency.
Police have warned people in Ottawa to stay away from windows and roofs.
The wounded soldier, who was standing guard at the National War Memorial, has been taken away in an ambulance.
The soldier appeared to be seriously wounded and medics were seen pushing on his chest to revive him.
The shooting comes two days after an Islamic convert ran down two Canadian soldiers near Montreal, killing one of them.
Authorities had raised the security threat level from low to medium after that incident.

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Calgary, Canada: Bogus Australian Sex-Trafficking Victim Facing Deportation Again

The Australian woman who set gardai on an international wild goose chase last year after she posed as a teenage sex-trafficking victim has turned up in Canada making similar false claims.

Samantha Azzopardi (25) is understood to be facing her second deportation in a year after she told Canadian police she was held prisoner for two weeks and sexually assaulted.

Police in Calgary last night confirmed they had been in touch with gardai and had positively identified the woman as Ms Azzopardi.

The young woman told Calgary police her name was Aurora Hepburn and claimed she had been sexually assaulted while being held at a children's hospital. She also claimed she had been imprisoned in a cage. It is understood she had filed a missing person report about herself to police in Canada using the false identity.

However, Calgary police contacted gardai last Thursday and were able to establish they were dealing with the same person.

Ms Azzopardi became known as the 'GPO Girl' after she was found, apparently wandering and bewildered by gardai in O'Connell Street in October last year.

She was taken into protective custody and kept under armed guard in Temple Street Hospital after she apparently convinced gardai she was a teenage sex trafficking victim from eastern Europe.

She spoke no English during the two weeks she was under protection and made childish drawings that suggested some form of sexual abuse had taken place.

Gardai were forbidden from publishing any image of her under child law guidelines for two weeks.

However, days after convincing the High Court they should do so, they were contacted by relatives of Ms Azzopardi.

It later emerged she had convictions in 2010 in Brisbane on charges of making false representations and possession of forged documents. She was fined AUS$500 and given a suspended sentence. She also had previous convictions for fraud in Perth.

After her true identity was established, gardai discovered Ms Azzopardi had no fewer than 40 previous aliases.

It also emerged she had visited a friend of her mother's in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, when she arrived in Ireland in September last year.

Ms Azzopardi had left Clonmel indicating she was returning to Australia.

It is believed she travelled to Dublin and assumed the persona of an underage Eastern European girl who had escaped from sex traffickers and was in need of protection.

She was sufficiently convincing to the point gardai set up a major operation that involved round-the-clock armed hospital guard, and an international search involving Interpol seeking a missing girl of Eastern European origin thought to be aged 14 or 15. The garda operation consumed 2,000 working hours and 115 different lines of international inquiry were pursued. The operation cost hundreds of thousands of euros.

After her identity was established and it was determined there was no threat to her, and she was also no threat to herself, Ms Azzopardi was sent back to Australia last November.

However, it subsequently emerged she returned to Ireland in May this year, using another alias and worked as an au pair for a family in Co Leitrim for six weeks before her real identity was discovered.

Ms Azzopardi left the country again, but it was not clear how or when she travelled to Canada.

A spokesman for Calgary Police last night confirmed the young woman they are investigating is the same person that made similar claims in Ireland.

He told the Sunday Independent: "The same person who was dealt with by Irish police was dealt with here."

The police said they are withholding further details.

Sunday Independent.