In Ottawa, Canada, a horrific incident saw six individuals from Sri Lanka, including a mother and her four young children, brutally knifed to death. The perpetrator, 19-year-old Febrio De-Zoysa, a Sri Lankan student, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of murder. The tragedy shocked the nation, where mass killings are rare, prompting reflection on community safety and security.
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00:00 In a tragic incident in Ottawa, Canada, six individuals from Sri Lanka, including a mother
00:07 and her four young children, were brutally attacked to death late Wednesday, shocking
00:13 the nation where mass attacks are very rare.
00:16 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed horror at the terrible tragedy, where police arrested
00:21 and charged a 19-year-old Sri Lankan student, February Soyza, with six counts of first-degree
00:27 murder and one count of attempted murder.
00:30 The Soyza, who knew the family and lived in the house, was taken into custody immediately.
00:35 The victims included a 35-year-old woman and her children aged seven, four, two and two
00:42 months, along with a 40-year-old man who was acquainted with the family.
00:48 Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs has condemned the senseless act of violence during a televised
00:52 news conference, emphasising that the victims were entirely innocent, with no prior interaction
00:57 between the police, the suspect or the family.
01:00 In addition, Ottawa's Mayor Mark Sutcliffe also described the incident as "one of the
01:04 most shocking incidents of violence in our country's history" via social media.
01:09 The tragedy unfolded in Badhaven, a southwestern suburb of Ottawa, where emergency calls prompted
01:15 police to respond just before 11pm on Wednesday.
01:18 Violence attacks are a rarity in Canada, adding to the gravity of the event.
01:22 The country witnessed a similar tragedy back in December 2022, when a man shot five people
01:28 in Toronto's suburb before being neutralised by the police.
01:31 Whereas another grim incident occurred in September of the same year, where a man stabbed
01:35 and killed 11 people in Saskatchewan, later dying of a cocaine overdose following his
01:41 arrest.
01:42 Ottawa, with a population of just one million, typically sees low incidence of such attacks,
01:46 recording 14 in 2023 and 15 in 2022.
01:50 The shocking nature of this event has left the community reeling and prompted reflection
01:54 on the safety and security of the neighbourhoods.
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