Home-grown jihadists behind attacks in Ottawa and Quebec

Two young Canadian men who launched deadly attacks in their own homeland were extremists tempted by war in Syria, but police have found no evidence of a wider plot, officials said. On Wednesday, Zehaf-Bibeau, a petty criminal from Montreal, shot dead an unarmed soldier at the Ottawa war memorial before storming the corridors of parliament. The attack followed a similar one on Monday, when 25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau ran over two soldiers in a Quebec parking lot, killing one of them, before being shot dead by police. Both assailants had sought to travel to Syria where they might join Islamist extremists waging war abroad, officials have said.

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