Canada:Sri Lankan family dead in Ottawa mass killing

In Canada, six people from Sri Lanka, including a mother and four young children, were knifed to death in Ottawa late on Wednesday, police said on Thursday, rocking a country where mass murders are rare.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.
Police said Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old male student from Sri Lanka, had been arrested and charged with six counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted murder. De-Zoysa knew the family and had been living in the house, they said. The victims were identified as 35-year-old Darshani Banbaranayake Gama Walwwe Darshani Dilanthika Ekanyake and her four children: seven-year-old Inuka Wickramasinghe, four-year-old Ashwini Wickramasinghe, two-year-old Rinyana Wickramasinghe and two-month-old Kelly Wickramasinghe. The acquaintance and sixth deceased victim was identified as 40-year-old Amarakoonmubiayansela Ge Gamini Amarakoon.
In Toronto on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed "shock and horror" at the incident, which he called a "terrible violence".Ottawa's mayor called the multiple homicide event "one of the most shocking incidents of violence in our city's history".