Three gunned down in Calgary restaurant

CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Three people were killed Thursday afternoon when two gunmen entered a Vietnamese restaurant in western Canada and opened fire.

Investigators were trying to determine the motive for the massacre at Bolsa, a restaurant in a strip mall in southwestern Calgary, Alberta, the Calgary Herald reported. Witnesses said the two men entered the restaurant, fired at people sitting at a table in the middle of the restaurant and then left in a silver car.

Two of the victims were killed inside and a third body was outside.

The killings came about 12 hours after the city's first homicide of 2009, a man who was fatally injured in a bar fight.

"It's not the way we wanted to start the new year," said Police Inspector Dean LaGrange.

Viet Tran, the owner of Bolsa, said he got a telephone call from his wife at about 4 p.m. telling him to come to the restaurant because of the shootings.