Blaine, Washington (Reuters) - Canadian authorities say a gunman shot and seriously injured in a van, officials of the Canadian border between Washington and British Columbia on Tuesday, the main crossing, and then immediately commit suicide.
At the Peace Arch crossing, the busiest shooters in the region, Washington license plate of the vehicle, rolled to Canadian security booth and shot in the neck.
The injured officer, a woman, her by helicopter to the hospital in critical condition, while the gunman at the scene was declared dead, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Corporal Hao PAQUET.
The authorities say they are still interviewing witnesses and sought to determine the motive of the shooting.
Investigators have placed a yellow tarp, right in front of the windows of the van. They plan to take a van to the forensic examination site, PAQUET said.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Towes said he was "deeply concerned about the news of the shooting."
"Towes said in a statement," My thoughts and prayers go out to the family and colleagues, this Border Services Agency officials.
Washington Governor Chris Gregoire said in a statement, the Premier of British Columbia to speak to her, and promised to investigate cooperate fully forward.
She said: "British Columbia close cooperation to jointly protect our borders, I think the extension of the Washington family, Canadian officials.
Brian White said, Canada who went to Washington to buy gasoline and wine waiting recross the border shooting incident occurred, he heard a gunshot.
"It's just a pop-up, which is not very loud," he told reporters in remarks carried on the Internet, officers swarmed the vehicle after the shooting.
After the vehicle the junctions was stopped incident traveling northbound into Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Jennifer Bourque said. The southbound lanes into the United States is still open, she said.
The transit connection Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, is the main highway from Seattle to Vancouver. Also known as the Douglas tunnel, which is the third busiest in the United States and Canadian border.



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