Canada’s town of Edmonton was rocked on New Year’s Eve when police announced that seven adults and two children had been killed in what they called a ‘senseless mass murder’.
One of the dead is believed to have killed himself. Police are not looking for any other suspects and are treating the deaths as domestic violence.
The incident unfolded in three different locations in Edmonton, in the western province of Alberta.
Seven bodies were found in the same house, police chief Rod Knecht said.
He said it was the worst mass killing in Edmonton since six people were killed in 1956.
The victims included a woman found Monday night by officers who were responding to a weapons complaint at a south Edmonton home.
The bodies of three more women, two men, a boy and a girl were discovered a few hours later in the northeast part of the city where officers had checked on reports of a depressed, suicidal male earlier in the evening.
