VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 11 (UPI) -- Two more people have been gunned down in the violence-wracked western Canadian city of Vancouver, raising the region's death toll to 20 this year, police said.
City police were called to an apartment above retail stores in the city's east end Tuesday morning, where they found the two victims, The Province newspaper said.
The city has had a spate of gang- and drug-related shootings and attacks this year but Constable Lindsey Houghton said it was too early to tell if the double killing was part of the turf war.
He said officers had been to the apartment in the two-story building before but didn't elaborate.
Abdelatif Mansouri, who lives next door to the crime scene, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. his neighbors were a male and female in their 20s who moved in several months ago and kept to themselves.
Since Jan. 1, there have been 33 shootings in and around Vancouver, which with a population of about 580,000, is Canada's third-largest city, the municipal Web site said.
