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NewsAlert: Reports of shooting at a forestry mill on Vancouver Island

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A shooting victim is taken to Vancouver General Hospital after a multiple shooting at a Nanaimo lumber mill, Wednesday April 30, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Twitter, Cathy O\'Connor

NANAIMO, B.C. – There are reports of a shooting at a forest-products mill on Vancouver Island.

The mill is in Nanaimo, north of Victoria.

There is no immediate word on casualties.

More coming.

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