The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s war memorial then storming parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial then storming the Canadian parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

Canadian police have conceded there was only a single gunman in a terror attack that killed a soldier standing guard at Ottawa’s National War Memorial and then stormed parliament in a hail of gunfire.

A gunman shot and wounded a Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then entered parliament, where numerous shots rang out, police and witnesses said.