12:25 p.m.
Quebec police now say just one of the individuals arrested in connection with Canadian mosque attack is considered a suspect, while the other man is considered a witness.
Police didn’t say which one remains the suspect in the Sunday night attack which killed six people and injured more than a dozen others.
Court clerk Isabelle Ferland earlier identified Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed el Khadir as the suspects
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12:05 p.m.
Iran is condemning the deadly shooting at a Quebec mosque, calling it “inhumane and criminal.”
State media quotes Franian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying the attack shows that “terrorism is not confined to one region or a few countries.”
Shiite-majority Iran is helping Iraq and Syria battle the Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group. But Iran has also provided aid to groups that Western nations consider terrorist organizations, like the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas.
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12:00 p.m.
The mayor of Paris says that the lights on the Eiffel Tower will be switched off at midnight to honor the victims of the attack on a Canadian mosque in which six people died.
In a tweet Monday, Anne Hidalgo says the action would send a “fraternal message to everyone in Quebec and in Canada.”
The lights on the iconic Paris monument will be turned off from midnight.
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11:45 a.m.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to express condolences about the Quebec City mosque attack that killed six.
Trudeau’s office says Trump expressed his condolences to Trudeau and the Canadian people and offered to provide any assistance needed.
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11:15 a.m.
A Quebec court clerk has confirmed the names of the suspects in the attack on a Canadian mosque in which six people died. Court clerk Isabelle Ferland identified Alexandre Bissonnette and Mohamed el Khadir as the suspects. Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says the attack is an attack on all Quebecers.
A shooting at a Quebec City mosque during evening prayers left six people dead and eight others wounded. The attack was described by Canadanian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as an act of terrorism.
Will Trudeau come out and condemn radical Islamic terror now that witnesses reported the two attackers screamed “Allahu Akbar” during the slaughter?
While authorities denied releasing any information about the suspects in the ongoing investigation, The Daily Mail reported those arrested were Alexandre Bissonette and Mohamed Khadir, the latter being of Moroccan descent.
There is increasing evidence the attack was motivated by radical Islamic terrorism.
One of the suspects was arrested at the scene, while the other called 911 on himself around 9 p.m., according to the Montreal Gazette.
“It seemed to me they had a Quebecois accent,” a witness told CBC News, “They started to fire, and as they shot, they yelled, ‘Allahu akbar!”
More than 50 people were at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre when the shooting erupted Sunday night. Some of the wounded were gravely injured, Quebec provincial police spokeswoman Christine Coulombe said early Monday. The dead ranged in age from age 35 to 70, she said, and 39 people were unharmed.
Police are investigating the possibility that the suspects are students at the local university, CBC News reported.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard both characterized the attack as a terrorist act, which came amid heightened tensions worldwide over President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim countries.
In the summer of 2016 a pig’s head was left on the doorstep of the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre in the middle of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to sunset. Practicing Muslims do not eat pork.
“The Muslim community was the target of this murderous attack,” Couillard said at an early morning news conference. He said solidarity rallies would be held across Quebec on Monday.
Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume, appearing shaken, said, “No person should have to pay with their life, for their race, their color, their sexual orientation or their religious beliefs,” Labeaume said.
Quebec City police spokesman Constable Pierre Poirier said the mosque has since been evacuated and the situation was under control.
Trudeau had earlier reacted to Trump’s visa ban for people from some Muslim-majority countries by tweeting Saturday: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.”
This story is developing. Check back for updates.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.