Ten people including the shooter are dead after an assailant on Tuesday opened fire at a high school in western Canada in one of the country’s deadliest mass casualty events in recent history.
The attack was carried out by a shooter described as “a female in a dress with brown hair,” police said.
Six people were found dead inside a high school in Tumbler Ridge, 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 hospital, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.
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At least two other people were hospitalized with serious or life-threatening wounds, and as many as 25 people were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police did not say how many of the victims might have been minors.
A suspected shooter was also found dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted injury, police said, adding that they did not believe there were any more suspects or ongoing threats to the public.
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RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters that investigators had identified a female suspect, but would not release a name, and that the shooter’s motive remained unclear.
He added that police are still investigating how the victims are connected to the shooter.
Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka said the whole community is grieving.
“I broke down,” he said, adding that it was “devastating” to learn how many had died in the community of 2,700, which he called a “big family.”
“I have lived here for 18 years,” Krakowka said. “I probably know every one of the victims.”
British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters he was at a loss for words.
“It’s hard to know what to say on a night like tonight. It’s the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places and not close to home,” Eby said.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wrote on social media that he was devastated by the shooting.
“I join Canadians in grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today, and in gratitude for the courage and selflessness of the first responders who risked their lives to protect their fellow citizens,” he wrote.
The shootings were Canada’s deadliest rampage since 2020, when a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires that left another nine dead.
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