A riot broke out and an officer was wounded in a neighborhood of Montreal where a young man had been shot and killed by police.
Several hundred police officers fanned out trying to track down an undetermined number of youths, who began setting fires in the neighborhood late on Sunday before running off.
Fire trucks arriving to fight the blazes in the borough of Montreal North were pelted with beer bottles, while bus shelters were trashed. People of all ages were seen looting computers, TVs and other items from stores.
Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafreniere said two police officers and an ambulance technician suffered non-life threatening injuries.
One of the officers was shot in the leg. The ambulance technician was hit in the head by a Molotov cocktail that did not ignite.
Police had made some arrests by 3am yesterday, but were unable to give many details.
Montreal North is a multiethnic borough where tensions between residents and police have simmered in the past.
“There’s definitely a problem,” borough Mayor Marcel Parent said. “We’ve got to fix this.”
The catalyst for the violence was the shooting by police on Saturday night of three people, including an 18-year-old man who died.
The man, identified by his sister as Freddy Alberto Villanueva, died from his wounds in hospital.
The other two, an 18 and a 20-year-old, were listed in stable condition.
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