Police evacuate kids from Gatineau daycare; reports say kids OK, one adult dead

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Police carry children from a safehouse to waiting parents and guardians in Gatineau, Que. on Friday April 5, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

GATINEAU, Que. – Police have evacuated children from a daycare centre in Gatineau, Que., amid reports that an adult has been killed in the building or nearby.

Police say all the children are safe and unharmed.

The daycare sits across the street from a hospital in this Quebec city just across the river from Ottawa.

Police did not immediately provide details about what happened, although the CBC was reporting that a body was removed from the building,

A police spokesman was to hold a news briefing shortly.

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