US: Police have arrested five people on murder charges for one of Canada's worst mass killings.
They said the deaths of eight men found on an isolated farm were part of "an internal cleansing" of a motorcycle gang.
The arrests were made at a modest two-storey farmhouse, about six miles from where the eight men were found shot dead.
The bodies were in four vehicles scattered in a wooded field in Shedden, Ontario, about 90 miles northeast of Detroit. Investigators did not believe a biker gang war was imminent.
"This is an isolated incident with ties to the Bandidos," said Det Ross Bingley of the Ontario provincial police, describing the killings as "an internal cleansing". Det Don Bell said there was little reason for public fear.
Police said Bandidos member Wayne Kellestine (56) would be charged with eight counts of first-degree murder. Also arrested and charged with eight counts of murder were Eric Niessen (45); Kerry Morris, (56); Frank Mather (32) and Brett Gardiner (21).
The latter four were not members of the Bandidos gang.
All five suspects were either from Monkton, Ontario, or the Dutton-Dunwich area, a small farming community in southwestern Ontario between London and the US border.
Police said Gardiner had no fixed address.
The gangland-style killings are the biggest mass murder in Canada since Mark Chahal went on a shooting rampage in 1996 in Vernon, British Columbia, killing nine people, including his estranged wife and himself.
"It's like somebody else's world dropped on ours," said Brenda Silcox, whose family shop in Shedden, a small farming community of only 300 people, has been in business for over 85 years.