Islamic State media have claimed the gunman who stormed Canada’s national parliament was a Quebec man previously known to the Canadian government.

Reuters reports 32-year-old Michael Zehaf-Bibeau is a possible suspect in the shooting of a Canadian soldier overnight and had previously converted to Islam.

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Mr Zehaf-Bibeau was allegedly born Michael Joseph Hall but changed his name.

He recently had his passport confiscated by the Canadian government.

The gunman, who shot dead Canadian forces reservist Cpl. Nathan Frank Cirillo at an Ottowa war memorial, was later killed by police inside Canada’s parliament.