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Five people have been killed after gunmen opened fire in a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers, the mosque's president says.
Quebec police confirmed the shooting in a tweet, and police on the scene said there had been fatalities.
"There are many victims … there are deaths," a Quebec police spokesman told reporters.
Quebec City police spokesman Pierre Poirier said two suspects were arrested.
A witness said heavily armed tactical police entered the mosque, but a police spokesman declined to say whether there was a gunman inside.
Earlier, a witness told Reuters that up to three gunmen fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre.
"Why is this happening here? This is barbaric," said the mosque's president, Mohamed Yangui.
Mr Yangui, who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred, said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers.
He did not know how many were injured, saying they had been taken to different hospitals across Quebec City.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard said it was an act of "barbaric violence" and expressed solidarity with victims' families.
Canada's Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said in a tweet he was "profoundly saddened by the loss of life and wounded".
In June 2016, a pig's head was left on the doorstep of the cultural centre.
Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab, or Muslim face covering.
In 2013, a mosque in the Saguenay region of Quebec was splattered with what was believed to be pig blood.
In the neighbouring province of Ontario, a mosque was set on fire in 2015, a day after an attack by gunmen and suicide bombers in Paris.
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