CNN correspondent in Quebec, Canada Paula Newton reports on the shooting at a Quebec City-area mosque that left at least 6 dead and 8 injured. Two suspects have been arrested. Newton reported "far-right groups" have been followed by counterterrorism officials, but qualified that this is "complete speculation."





NEWTON: There are tensions here as there are in many different communities, and in fact Canada has taken in tens of thousands of refugees, specifically Syrian refugees in the last few months.



I will say that especially in Quebec that I know that counterterrorism officials had been following some far-right groups. Now, this is complete speculation. I'm just telling you what I know that counterterrorism officials have been doing. And the problem here is that while they were monitoring their correspondence and monitoring speech, they certainly had not gotten to the point where they thought it would lead to this kind of violent confrontation, but of course this is what concerned them at the time. Again, complete speculation.

"It seemed to me that they had a Québécois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot they yelled, 'Allahu akbar!' The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head," said the witness.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the shooters yelled 'Allahu akbar' as they fired their weapons FOX News reports , "the attackers were students at Université Laval, a school in Quebec, a source close to the investigation told Radio Canada, saying one was Moroccan. Police said the suspects were not on their radar."