The Toronto police were called to the corner of Danforth and Logan avenues, in the city’s Greektown neighborhood, around 10 p.m. Eastern time Sunday, Mark Pugash, a police spokesman, said.

He confirmed that the shooting occurred but said he could not provide any additional information about the nature or severity of the injuries. He also did not provide any information about the suspect, but said he had been told the suspect was dead.

CBC News said some of those struck by gunfire had died. Media reports also said 15 to 20 shots had been fired in the area.

Gun violence is much rarer in Canada than it is in the United States. But the number of shootings in Toronto has doubled in recent years, according to data from the Toronto Police Service. The city had 177 shootings in 2014 and 395 in 2017, and is on pace to surpass that mark this year.

In April, 10 people were killed in Toronto when the driver of a rental van struck dozens of pedestrians on a sidewalk. The man accused of driving the van, Alek Minassian, had posted a message hostile to women online only moments before the rampage began, the police said.

Last year, Canada was shaken by a shooting at a mosque in Quebec that left six dead and eight others wounded in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly labeled a “terrorist attack on Muslims.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

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