Northern senators, MPs, safe following Ottawa shooting

No northerners were injured in the shooting in downtown Ottawa Wednesday.

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Dennis Bevington, the MP for the Northwest Territories, was flying to Yellowknife when a soldier was shot in downtown Ottawa. He found out about it immediately when he landed.

"Mycell phone just went off the hook as soon as we connected into the system," Bevington said.

Bevington says his colleagues in Ottawa were in a caucus meeting in a room right next to the foyer in the centre block of the Parliament Hill building, where they believe the majority of the shootings took place.

Bevington says all his staff is safe, but he still has to take precautions while in Yellowknife.

"We've been instructed to have locked doors, so we'll do thatthat's part of, I guess, a security protocol that's been put in place for all parliamentary people," Bevington said.

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He says he's "just as shocked as everyone else" about the shooting, adding that he walks throughRideau Centre Mall, one of the locations where there were reports that shots werefired. Those reports were later denied.

"To see this kindof incident is something weall have really dreaded and certainly don't want to see in our country."

In an email to CBC News, Nunavut Senator Dennis Patterson said he was on Parliament Hill when the shootings occurred. He spent several hours in lockdown Wednesdayin a meeting room.

Yukon Senator Dan Lang and Yukon MP RyanLeef were also inlockdownon Parliament Hillbut staff say they are safe.

Nunavut MP and Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq are also safe as isN.W.T. Senator Nick Sibbeston.

Police in Ottawa ended the lockdown Wednesday evening.