Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock Toronto police link dozens of shootings to ‘multilayered’ gun-for-hire network Young adults and teens are being recruited through apps like Telegram and paid to carry out attacks, officials say Police investigators in Toronto have said that dozens of shootings – including one at the US consulate in March – are linked to a “multilayered” gun-for-hire network that is also responsible for attacks on synagogues around Canada’s largest city. Toronto’s police chief, Myron Demkiw, told reporters on Tuesday that young adults and teenagers are being recruited through encrypted messaging apps such as Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp by “bad actors” and paid by the networks to carry out the attacks. Shooters are required to film their attacks in order to get paid. “Who is paying for this?” he said. “This is what we are trying to determine.” Canada police investigate whether Toronto police death linked to global terror attacks Read more A veteran Toronto police officer was killed last week during a raid linked to the shootings. Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was shot early on Thursday morning while a team of officers executed a search warrant at an apartment building in the city’s north-west. Police have charged 19-year-old Nicholas Bennett, who remains in hospital, with first-degree murder. They also announced charges against Jayon Burgher and Sheldon Tracey-Stewart for their roles in some of the shootings. Both are 18 years old. Police are still searching for 19-year-old Zara Jabbi, who they say is linked to the attack at the consulate. No one was injured in the March attack. Police said two handguns seized during dawn raids last week could be connected to 27 separate shootings across the Greater Toronto Area and investigators believe the seized guns were being passed between multiple shooters. “While we’ve been able to connect these firearms to numerous instances, we are still working to identify not only the individuals responsible for pulling the triggers but also those who may have directed or organized these acts of violence,” said Joe Matthews, the Toronto police service’s chief superintendent. Demkiw said the shootings were part of a “broader” trend that police are seeing in the city and in other regions, adding the investigators were working with the FBI. “What we are dealing with in this case and in other unrelated incidences, including shootings at synagogues and Jewish schools, is a recurring and similar modus operandi and that is criminals for hire,” Demkiw said. “It is clear that some of the

Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation Read more: Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has a £750 emergency operation. But Abdiqadir Salah’s family cannot afford the surgery and the US – which refuses to admit that any civilians were killed or injured during its attack six months ago – appears unwilling to pay compensation to those affected by airstrikes in Somalia. Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing? Read more Shards of shrapnel are lodged in two places in Abdiqadir’s back and in his upper thigh after US airstrikes that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration and one of the worst since the botched 1993 US military operation in Mogadishu known as Black Hawk Down . A Guardian investigation into the strikes in the town of Jamaame raises myriad questions over US intelligence, how the targets were selected and why children were hit while they were in the open and were likely to have been clearly identifiable to the drone’s strike team. His mother said Abdiqadir was in the street outside his family home in Jamaame on 15 November 2025 when he was struck by a missile. View image in fullscreen Marian Haji Abdi Guled fled the missiles with her three injured children, hiding in surrounding countryside. Photograph: Mohamed Gabobe “That’s where three of my children got wounded. All three of them were laying on the ground covered in blood,” said Marian Haji Abdi Guled. “When I tried to tend to them, shells began falling everywhere. Every step you took, or direction you turned, there were shells and missiles raining everywhere. “There was no warning before the strikes but we could [hear] drones hovering above town before the strikes. It was very loud.” After the attack, Guled took her three injured children into the surrounding countryside to flee the drones. Her eldest, Mohamed, 16, had shrapnel lodged in his fingers, while her daughter Sumaya, 14, had three metal fragments lodged in her head, which have since been removed. Abdiqadir’s X-rays, which have been viewed by the Guardian, show shrapnel still lodged near his

'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship 5 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rachel Flynn and Victoria Derbyshire , BBC Newsnight Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian warship speak to BBC Newsnight A retired …

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation Read more: Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has a £750 emergency operation. But Abdiqadir Salah’s family cannot afford the surgery and the US – which refuses to admit that any civilians were killed or injured during its attack six months ago – appears unwilling to pay compensation to those affected by airstrikes in Somalia. Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing? Read more Shards of shrapnel are lodged in two places in Abdiqadir’s back and in his upper thigh after US airstrikes that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration and one of the worst since the botched 1993 US military operation in Mogadishu known as Black Hawk Down . A Guardian investigation into the strikes in the town of Jamaame raises myriad questions over US intelligence, how the targets were selected and why children were hit while they were in the open and were likely to have been clearly identifiable to the drone’s strike team. His mother said Abdiqadir was in the street outside his family home in Jamaame on 15 November 2025 when he was struck by a missile. View image in fullscreen Marian Haji Abdi Guled fled the missiles with her three injured children, hiding in surrounding countryside. Photograph: Mohamed Gabobe “That’s where three of my children got wounded. All three of them were laying on the ground covered in blood,” said Marian Haji Abdi Guled. “When I tried to tend to them, shells began falling everywhere. Every step you took, or direction you turned, there were shells and missiles raining everywhere. “There was no warning before the strikes but we could [hear] drones hovering above town before the strikes. It was very loud.” After the attack, Guled took her three injured children into the surrounding countryside to flee the drones. Her eldest, Mohamed, 16, had shrapnel lodged in his fingers, while her daughter Sumaya, 14, had three metal fragments lodged in her head, which have since been removed. Abdiqadir’s X-rays, which have been viewed by the Guardian, show shrapnel still lodged near his

'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship 3 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rachel Flynn and Victoria Derbyshire , BBC Newsnight Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian warship speak to BBC Newsnight A retired British couple who were on a yacht which had warning shots fired near it by a Russian warship in the English Channel have told the BBC the experience was "surreal". Jane and Alan Kelvey were sailing 23 miles (37km) off the Isle of Wight in international waters when they came into close contact with the Russian frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday. Sir Keir Starmer said firing shots into the path of a UK-registered yacht was "reckless" - an incident the Ministry of Defence has described as an isolated one. Russia's Defence Ministry said the yacht had been on a "dangerous approach" towards the warship but the couple said they were "not on a collision course". The incident comes days after Royal Marine Commandos intercepted a Russian shadow fleet tanker carrying sanctioned oil in the Channel on Sunday, in the first operation of its kind carried out by the British military. Jane Kelvey told BBC Newsnight: "[The warship] gave out five blasts on their horn, which means 'have you seen us?' "We immediately turned two degrees to port so they could see we had made a deliberate change of course, which meant we had seen them. "Then a minute or so later they gave another five blasts on their horn, immediately followed by four to five small arms fire. "That wasn't aimed at us - it was warning fire that went up in the air, we believe." After the gunshots they steered the yacht 90 degrees to port using the motor, she said. Russian warships regularly pass through international waters in the Channel, which are separate from UK and French territorial waters. The ships are monitored by Royal Navy vessels. The Russian Defence Ministry said the Admiral Grigorovich's crew had fired into the yacht's path with rifles after making several attempts to contact the yacht over the radio and launching warning flares and the sailors had acted in "strict accordance with international shipping regulations". Russian warship firing warning shots was 'reckless', Starmer says Sir Keir told the BBC on Wednesday the incident should not have happened and the couple must have felt "terrified". "What happened in the Channel was deeply concerning. It was reckless. The MoD have done an assessment. Their assessment is that the Russian vessel was drifting, and they were warning shots, and therefore it is important in that context," he added. An MoD spokesperson said: "Following attempts to contact a British vessel in the channel, the Grigorovich fired warning shots. "These were not aimed at the vessel and were an attempt to prevent a possible collision." Jane Kelvey said their yacht, the Bright Future, was "definitely not on a collision course". "As far as we were concerned, it wasn't an inc

Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation Read more: Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has a £750 emergency operation. But Abdiqadir Salah’s family cannot afford the surgery and the US – which refuses to admit that any civilians were killed or injured during its attack six months ago – appears unwilling to pay compensation to those affected by airstrikes in Somalia. Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing? Read more Shards of shrapnel are lodged in two places in Abdiqadir’s back and in his upper thigh after US airstrikes that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration and one of the worst since the botched 1993 US military operation in Mogadishu known as Black Hawk Down . A Guardian investigation into the strikes in the town of Jamaame raises myriad questions over US intelligence, how the targets were selected and why children were hit while they were in the open and were likely to have been clearly identifiable to the drone’s strike team. His mother said Abdiqadir was in the street outside his family home in Jamaame on 15 November 2025 when he was struck by a missile. View image in fullscreen Marian Haji Abdi Guled fled the missiles with her three injured children, hiding in surrounding countryside. Photograph: Mohamed Gabobe “That’s where three of my children got wounded. All three of them were laying on the ground covered in blood,” said Marian Haji Abdi Guled. “When I tried to tend to them, shells began falling everywhere. Every step you took, or direction you turned, there were shells and missiles raining everywhere. “There was no warning before the strikes but we could [hear] drones hovering above town before the strikes. It was very loud.” After the attack, Guled took her three injured children into the surrounding countryside to flee the drones. Her eldest, Mohamed, 16, had shrapnel lodged in his fingers, while her daughter Sumaya, 14, had three metal fragments lodged in her head, which have since been removed. Abdiqadir’s X-rays, which have been viewed by the Guardian, show shrapnel still lodged near his

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship 3 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rachel Flynn , Paul Adams , diplomatic correspondent and Victoria Derbyshire , BBC Newsnight Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian warship speak to BBC Newsnight A retired British couple who were on a yacht which had warning shots fired near it by a Russian warship in the English Channel have told the BBC the experience was "surreal". Jane and Alan Kelvey were sailing 23 miles (37km) off the Isle of Wight in international waters when they came into close contact with the Russian frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday. Sir Keir Starmer said firing shots into the path of a UK-registered yacht was "reckless" - an incident the Ministry of Defence has described as an isolated one. Russia's Defence Ministry said the yacht had been on a "dangerous approach" towards the warship but the couple said they were "not on a collision course". The incident comes days after Royal Marine Commandos intercepted a Russian shadow fleet tanker carrying sanctioned oil in the Channel on Sunday, in the first operation of its kind carried out by the British military. Jane Kelvey told BBC Newsnight: "[The warship] gave out five blasts on their horn, which means 'have you seen us?' "We immediately turned two degrees to port so they could see we had made a deliberate change of course, which meant we had seen them. "Then a minute or so later they gave another five blasts on their horn, immediately followed by four to five small arms fire. "That wasn't aimed at us - it was warning fire that went up in the air, we believe." Russian warships regularly pass through international waters in the Channel, which are separate from UK and French territorial waters. The ships are monitored by Royal Navy vessels. The Russian Defence Ministry said the Admiral Grigorovich's crew had fired into the yacht's path with rifles after making several attempts to contact the yacht over the radio and launching warning flares and the sailors had acted in "strict accordance with international shipping regulations". Russian warship firing warning shots was 'reckless', Starmer says Sir Keir told the BBC on Wednesday the incident should not have happened and the couple must have felt "terrified". "What happened in the Channel was deeply concerning. It was reckless. The MoD have done an assessment. Their assessment is that the Russian vessel was drifting, and they were warning shots, and therefore it is important in that context," he added. An MoD spokesperson said: "Following attempts to contact a British vessel in the channel, the Grigorovich fired warning shots. "These were not aimed at the vessel and were an attempt to prevent a possible collision." Jane Kelvey said their yacht, the Bright Future, was "definitely not on a collision course". "As far as we were concerned, it wasn't an incident until the gunfire started," she said. She

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

''Scary' clash in Channel' and 'Oh frigate!' 4 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Most of Wednesday's papers lead on the warning shots fired by a Russian warship near a UK-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning. The British couple on board tell the i Paper that they …

''Scary' clash in Channel' and 'Oh frigate!' 3 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Most of Wednesday's papers lead on the warning shots fired by a Russian warship near a UK-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning. The British couple on board tell the i Paper that they …

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

''Scary' clash in Channel' and 'Oh frigate!' 3 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Most of Wednesday's papers lead on the warning shots fired by a Russian warship near a UK-registered yacht in the English Channel on Tuesday morning. The British couple on board tell the i Paper that they …

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…

'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship 6 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rachel Flynn , Paul Adams , diplomatic correspondent and Victoria Derbyshire , BBC Newsnight Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian w…

'It was surreal': British couple describe having warning shots fired near them by Russian warship 6 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Rachel Flynn , Paul Adams , diplomatic correspondent and Victoria Derbyshire , BBC Newsnight Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian w…

Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…