Canadian police probe deaths of seven adults and two young children

Police in Canada are investigating the deaths of seven adults and two young children at three separate but connected Edmonton-area crime scenes.

Police Chief Ron Knecht called the killings a “senseless mass murder”.

He said the victims included a woman found last night by officers responding to a weapons complaint at a south Edmonton home.

The bodies of three more women, two men, a boy and a girl were discovered a few hours later at a north-east home where officers had checked on reports of a suicidal male earlier in the evening.

A man matching the description of the suicidal male was found dead in a restaurant in the Edmonton community of Fort Saskatchewan this morning, Mr Knecht said.