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Fourteen people, including a young girl, who is in a critical condition was shot near downtown Toronto, according to police.

One individual who was shot and as well gunman found dead.

"We are looking at all possible motives... and not closing any doors," Saunders told reporters at the shooting site.

In Toronto's east end, paramedics, firefighters, and police converged on the shooting spot, which has many popular eatery houses and stores.

Police said the gunman had used a handgun. Earlier reports said nine people were shot.

Reports of the gunfire in the city's Greektown neighborhood began at 10 p.m. local time (0200 GMT Monday), CityNews.com said.

Witnesses said they heard 25 gunshots, it reported.

This year, Toronto is struggling with a crisp outgrowth in gun violence. In the city, deaths from gun hostility have risen to 53 percent to 26 percent so far in 2018 from the same period earlier this year, as per police data.  

In consequence to the recent series in shootings, around 200 police officers were deployed from Toronto, which city officials have blasted on gang violence.

Toronto Mayor John Tory told reporters that the city has a gun problem and guns were too promptly available to too many people.

By Sowmya Sangam