Man Arrested at War Monument as Canadian PM Laid Flowers
Police wrestled a disheveled man to the ground near Canada's war memorial Thursday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife arrived to place flowers for a soldier killed there the day before.
Harper and his wife Laureen walked hand in hand to the tomb of the unknown soldier where the soldier was mortally wounded at the start of an attack by a lone gunman Wednesday in the heart of Ottawa.
As they approached the tomb, screaming suddenly erupted outside a police perimeter set up around the monument.
The Harpers kept walking. Laureen set down the bouquet. The couple bowed their heads in a moment of silence, and then left.
Meanwhile, on the nearby Sparks pedestrian mall, a disheveled man with greying hair was pulled off the pavement in handcuffs and escorted to a waiting police van.
Source: Agence France Presse
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