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- Initially, the mosque president said five people were killed and a witness said up to three gunmen had fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Centre. Police said only two people were involved in the attack.
- CBC reported that a witness told Radio-Canada that two masked gunmen entered the mosque during evening prayers.
- “It seemed to me that they had a Quebecois accent. They started to fire, and as they shot they yelled, ‘Allahu akbar!’ The bullets hit people that were praying. People who were praying lost their lives. A bullet passed right over my head,” said the unidentified witness.
- Reuters, citing a witness, reported that up to three gunmen opened fire on about 40 people in the Quebec City
Islamic Cultural Center.
- An eyewitness told Reuters that they saw a heavily armed tactical police entering the mosque. Another witness says that up to three gunman fired on about 40 people inside the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center.
- In what was described as a coordinated attack, witnesses say at least two gunmen wearing black fired indiscriminately into the dozens of worshipers — including families — in the mosque.
- A witness, who asked to remain anonymous, told CBC's French-language service Radio-Canada that two masked individuals entered the mosque.
