(VOVworld) – 8 people were killed this week in Canada’s worst mass killing ever. The incident unfolded in three different locations in Edmonton, in the western province of Alberta.

Police remove one of the eight victims from a home in Edmonton, Alberta (Photo: AP)

Police investigated on Tuesday, December 30, the "senseless mass murder" of 6 adults and two children who were apparently slain by a depressed man who then killed himself. The killings began late Monday in the southern part of Edmonton, a city of nearly one million people, where a man shot to death a woman in her 30s then fled, said the city's Police Chief Rod Knecht. The suspected killer then headed to a residence in the north of the city, where he killed another 7 people –3 women, two men, a girl and a boy. The body of the suspected killer was found early Tuesday in Fort Saskatchewan, a northeastern suburb of Edmonton, after he committed suicide.