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A soldier has died after a string of shootings across downtown Ottawa that left at least two others wounded and a gunman dead. Police are investigating a wild shootout inside Parliament Hill’s Centre Block and one other shooting scene as they continue to swarm across downtown Ottawa in search of suspects in Wednesday’s attack on the nation’s capital.

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This isn’t the first time a gunman has launched an attack on Canada’s Parliament. Below, is a list of terrorist incidents and major security breaches that have rocked Ottawa in the last 50 years.

In 1966, Paul Joseph Chartier accidentally blew himself up in Centre Block with 10 sticks of dynamite. He had gone into a washroom near the House of Commons public galleries and lit the fuse, but misjudged the timing of the detonation. The bomb went off just as he left the washroom. The unemployed Toronto security guard left a note revealing he had planned to toss the explosives onto the floor of the Commons and “exterminate as many members as possible.” No one else was hurt.