One of the deadliest school shootings reported to date since 1989
\n British Columbia
\nTen people were dead, including the shooter, after a woman opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday before turning the gun on herself, police said.
\nThe outburst, one of the country\u2019s deadliest mass casualty events in recent history, brought to Canada the type of mass shooting more common in the neighbouring United States.
\nSix people were found dead inside a high school in the town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia, two more people were found dead at a residence believed to be connected to the incident, and another person died on the way to the hospital, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
\nAt least two other people were hospitalised with serious or life-threatening injuries, and as many as 25 people were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
\nA suspected shooter was also found dead from what appears to be a self\u2011inflicted injury, police said, adding they did not believe there were any more suspects or an ongoing threat to the public.
\nPolice described the shooter as a woman\u2013an unusual development as mass shootings in North America are almost always carried out by men.
\nA police active shooter alert said the suspect was described as \u00abfemale in a dress with brown hair.\u00bb Police Superintendent Ken Floyd later confirmed at a press conference that the suspect described in the alert was the same person found dead in the school. Police did not say how many of the victims may have been minors.
\nTumbler Ridge is a remote municipality with a population of around 2,400 people in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia, approximately 1,155 km (717 miles) northeast of Vancouver. Images of the town show a snow-covered landscape filled with pine trees.
\n\u00abMultiple injuries and multiple deceased were inside the school as officers progressed through the scene,\u00bb Floyd told reporters.
\n\u00abWe\u203are still triaging other victims, and I don\u203at have updates on whether that number could rise. The scene was very dramatic, and there are multiple victims that are still being cared for,\u00bb Floyd said.
\nCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement on X: \u00abI am devastated by today\u2019s horrific shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. My prayers and deepest condolences are with the families and friends who have lost loved ones to these horrific acts of violence.\u00bb
\nIn April 2020, a 51-year-old man disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car shot and killed 22 people in a 13-hour rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before police killed him at a gas station about 90 km (60 miles) from the site of his first killings.
\nIn Canada\u203as worst school shooting, in December 1989, a gunman killed 14 female students and wounded 13 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, before committing suicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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