Five arrested over killing of eight in Ontario

Canadian police say eight men found dead in a farmer's field over the weekend were affiliated with a biker gang and that five…

Canadian police say eight men found dead in a farmer's field over the weekend were affiliated with a biker gang and that five people have been arrested on eight counts of murder.

Police in Ontario called it "an internal cleansing" of the Bandidos motorcycle gang and that the eight victims suffered gunshot wounds.

Police today searched a farmhouse owned by a gang member near the site where eight men were found dead, stuffed inside abandoned vehicles in one of Canada's biggest multiple-murders in a decade.

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