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Four killed in shooting in Canada, including two police officers

Police officers Lawrence Robert Costello (L), 45, and Sara Mae Helen Burns, 43, were among four people killed in the shooting in eastern Canada. [AFP]

Two police officers were among four people killed Friday in a shooting that sparked panic and a police lockdown in a sleepy eastern Canadian city, as the nation grapples with rising gun violence.

Residents of the Brookside neighborhood of Fredericton, New Brunswick woke to the sounds of multiple gunshots.

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