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WILNO, Ont. — A man has been arrested after three women were shot dead in eastern Ontario Tuesday afternoon.

A shooting in a small eastern Ontario community Tuesday morning triggered a manhunt that ended hours later with the arrest of a man police consider a suspect in the deaths of three women.

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The 57-year-old man — who authorities have not named pending charges, but sources identified to the Ottawa Citizen as Basil Borutski, 57 — was arrested by police in Ottawa hours after officers were first called to a home in Wilno, Ont., some 130 kilometres west of the country’s capital.

Police had initially said the man was being sought in connection with one fatal shooting.

Later in the day, however, police provided details on how events had unfolded.

They said officers were called to a location in Wilno, Ont., just before 9 a.m. and found the body of Anastasia Kuzyk. As a result of information they received, they then went to another home in the community and found the body of a second woman.

Sources have identified the second victim as Nathalie Warmerdam.

Shortly after 11:10 a.m., police say they found a third woman dead at a home about half an hour away from Wilno.

Several businesses and schools in Wilno were placed on lockdown while the search for the suspect was underway. Extra security measures were also taken on and around Parliament Hill in Ottawa, as police announced the suspect may have headed to the city.