An-Najah News -  A gunman who at one point masqueraded as a policeman killed at least 16 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia during a 12-hour rampage in what was the country’s worst modern-era mass shooting.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the gunman, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, who worked as a denturist. He had also painstakingly disguised his car to look like a police cruiser,
police added they had ended the threat posed by Wortman, who was dead.

 Commissioner Brenda Lucki told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp 
 "Wortman shot people in several locations in Nova Scotia, the RCMP told a briefing.the police knew of at least 16 victims, besides the shooter. She added there was no indication at this time that the killings were terrorism-related.

Police said there was no apparent link between Wortman and at least some of his victims. They said they had no idea what his motivation might have been.
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Canada, which has tighter gun control laws than the United States.