PARAMEDICS TESTIFY AT NS MASS SHOOTING INQUIRY

   Nova Scotia paramedic Melanie Lowe struggled to maintain her composure Monday as she described the night two years ago when four children climbed into her ambulance and described how their parents had just been shot to death.
   “They were very frank about what they saw,” Lowe told a public inquiry investigating a mass shooting in April 2020 that started in Portapique, N.S., and would claim 22 lives over two days in northern and central Nova Scotia.

   Lowe was among three paramedics and an ambulance dispatcher who spoke to the inquiry about their work on April 18-19, 2020. All four said they were told very little about what was going on as the RCMP searched for the killer. And they complained about how little support they received afterwards from their employer, Emergency Health Services.