Inquiry into Canada's worst mass shooting calls for police reforms, gun regulation

FILE PHOTO: A Halifax Police Cruiser monitors the Atlantic Denture Clinic, where the gunman responsible for a mass shooting Gabriel Wortman worked, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada April 20, 2020. REUTERS/John Morris

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Officials reviewing Canada's worst mass shooting called for police reforms, stricter gun safety regulations and better public communication on Thursday after an investigation found many shortcomings in authorities' response to the incident in 2020.

In April 2020, 51-year-old Gabriel Wortman, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, shot and killed 22 people, set houses on fire and even killed pets in a 13-hour rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.