A young woman has died and at least 19 other people were injured after a gunman opened fire on students at a college in Montreal in Canada.
The shooting took place in and around Dawson College in the centre of the city.
The facility is an English-language school with about 10,000 students.
Montreal's police chief, Yvan Delorme, confirmed today that the gunman was Kimveer Gill, a 25-year-old man from a Montreal suburb.
Gill, dressed in a black trenchcoat and armed with three weapons, approached the college and fired indiscriminately until he was shot dead by policemen.
Officials identified the woman who died as 20-year-old Anastasia De Sousa, a student at Dawson College.
Montreal health officials said that among the 19 people wounded, four remained in critical condition from gunshot wounds, while two had been moved from the intensive care ward. The victims' ages ranged from 17 to 48.
The shooting triggered memories of the 1989 massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, where a gunman killed 14 women before killing himself, as well as of the 1999 Columbine massacre in Colorado, where two teenagers killed 12 other students and a teacher before killing themselves.
The Ecole Polytechnique gunman, Marc Lepine, 25, left behind a three-page letter that said feminists had ruined his life and named 19 high-profile Quebec women he wanted to kill.
