One person has been shot dead in Quebec and another wounded after a gunman entered the venue where Pauline Marois, the separatist Parti Quebecois leader who had just become the Canadian province's premier-elect, was giving her victory speech.
Voters in the French-speaking province on Tuesday ousted the governing Liberals and installed the Parti Quebecois as a minority government – in the process making Marois the first female premier of Quebec.
Around midnight, two bodyguards abruptly interrupted Marois's victory speech, bundling her into the backstage area after a deafening boom rang out.
According to Montreal police, one person was fatally shot and another was in critical condition after a man in his 50s entered the back door of Montreal's Metropolis concert hall, and shot them before setting fire to the premises.
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