Eight killed in Canada \\\'senseless mass murder\\\'

MONTREAL, Dec 31 (AFP): Police in western Canada were investigating Wednesday the "senseless mass murder" of six adults and two children, who were apparently slain by a depressed man who later killed himself.
Police Chief Rod Knecht said killings-the worst ever in Edmonton-were "planned and deliberate" and apparently were carried out during a domestic dispute.
The killings began late Monday in the southern part of Edmonton, a city of nearly one million people in Alberta province, where a man shot to death a woman in her 30s, Knecht said.
The man then headed to a residence in the north of the city, where he killed another seven people-three women, two men, a girl and a boy.