Quebec City police have officially confirmed that Mohamed Khadir and Alexandre Bissonnette, the two perpetrators of the Quebec City mosque shooting which left 6 people dead and several more wounded, are in fact members of the Islamic State.

Though both have lived in Quebec for most of their lives, police have reported that the two suspects made a recent trip to Syria where they met with Islamic State leadership to discuss plans for an attack on Canadian soil. It has been reported that it was senior ISIS officials who ordered them to attack a mosque as they believed that many of the mosques established in the West do not promote true Islam. Police declined to offer more information regarding the suspects such as their age. It is largely believed that it was Khadir himself who drove Bissonnette towards Islam and introduced him to a radical Wahhabist ideology.