A police officer was killed and three civilians were injured in a shootout in the cities of Mississauga and Milton, near Toronto, CBC reported, citing police in Canadian Province of Ontario.

According to the same source, the perpetrator, who fled in a stolen car, was found and killed in a shootout with police officers.

The motive for the attack remains unclear at this time.

Canada has recently been rocked by indiscriminate violence, including a series of knife attacks on an isolated Aboriginal community in Saskatchewan on September 4 that left 10 people dead and 18 injured.

One of the two alleged attackers was found dead and the other was arrested four days later before finally taking his own life.

In April 2020, a gunman posing as a police officer killed 22 people in rural Nova Scotia. In January 2017, six people were killed and five injured in an attack on a mosque in Quebec.

^{Sources: APE-MPE, AFP.}