Man arrested after Quebec City sword attack

Police officers guard the site of the multiple stabbing (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP/PA)

A man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with a Japanese sword has been arrested on suspicion of killing two people and wounding five others in Canada.

The attack on randomly-chosen victims on Halloween near the historic Chateau Frontenac hotel in Quebec City went on for nearly two-and-a-half hours while police pursued the man armed with a katana throughout the city’s downtown core on foot, Quebec Police Chief Robert Pigeon said.