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City in British Columbia, Canada
Burnaby is a city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada. Located in the centre of the Burrard Peninsula, it neighbours the City of Vancouver to the west, the District of North Vancouver across the confluence of the Burrard Inlet with its Indian Arm to the north, Port Moody and Coquitlam to the east, New Westminster and Surrey across the Fraser River to the southeast, and Richmond on Lulu Island to the southwest. It has a population of 249,125 as of the 2021 census.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the national police service of Canada. The RCMP is an agency of the Government of Canada; it also provides police services under contract to 11 provinces and territories, over 150 municipalities, and 600 Indigenous communities. The RCMP is commonly known as the Mounties in English.
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One man is in hospital with serious injuries and the province's civilian police oversight agency is investigating after a police-involved shooting in Burnaby on Sunday morning, RCMP say.
Mounties said a man was hospitalized on Sunday morning after he reportedly approached police with an edged weapon in Burnaby, and an officer shot him.