Week 7 - Keywords： Canada's parliament attacked

Canada's parliament attacked, soldier fatally shot nearby

BY RANDALL PALMER AND DAVID LJUNGGREN

OTTAWA Wed Oct 22, 2014 7:38pm EDT

(Reuters) - A gunman attacked Canada's parliament on Wednesday, with gunfire erupting near where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was speaking, and a soldier was fatally shot at a nearby war memorial, stunning the Canadian capital.

The gunman in the parliament building was shot dead, and Harper was safely removed in incidents that may have been linked to Islamic militants.

Witness accounts indicated the man who shot dead the soldier guarding the National War Memorial in central Ottawa, went on to attack the parliament building minutes later. Canadian police said however they could not "at this point" confirm it was the same person.

The shootings followed an attack on two soldiers in Quebec on Monday carried out by a convert to Islam. Two U.S. officials said U.S. agencies had been advised the dead gunman in Wednesday's shootings was also a Canadian convert to Islam.

Witnesses said a flurry of shots were fired after a gunman entered the parliament building, pursued by police.

The assault took place very near the room where Harper was meeting with members of his Conservative party, a government minister said.

"PM (Harper) was addressing caucus, then a huge boom, followed by rat-a-tat shots. We all scattered. It was clearly right outside our caucus door," Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement told Reuters.

The incident, shocking in Canada's normally tranquil capital, began shortly before 10 a.m. ET and was not over late in the afternoon. Parliament and buildings in downtown remained on emergency lockdown at 6 p.m.

Canadian police were investigating a man named as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as a possible suspect in the shootings, a source familiar with the matter said. U.S. government sources said the suspect was born Michael Joseph Hall but later changed his legal family name to Zehaf-Bibeau.

Security in Ottawa came under criticism after the gunman was able to run through the unlocked front door of the main parliament building. Police said an operation was under way to make parliament safe.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/22/us-canada-attacks-shooting-idUSKCN0IB1PY20141022

Structure of the Lead：

WHO- a Canada soldier, congressmen, a gunman

WHEN- Wed Oct 22, 2014

WHAT- a Canada soldier was shot to dead by a gunman, the gunman then ran to the parliament attacked Canada's parliament.

WHY- not even know, but the gunman seems to a Canadian convert to Islam.

WHERE- Canada parliament

HOW- shooting

Keywords：

1. parliament：議會、國會

2. National War Memorial：戰爭紀念館

3. Islamic militants：伊斯蘭武裝份子

4. guarding：守衛 (v.)

5. convert：皈依、轉而信奉（指宗教）

6. assault：突擊 (n.)

7. caucus：預備會議 (n.)