Ten dead after woman opens fire at high school in Canada
Written by İsmail Şakil and Ryan Patrick Jones
February 10 (Reuters) – 10 people, including the shooter, were killed when a woman opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday before turning the gun on herself, police said.
The blast, one of the deadliest mass shootings in the country’s recent history, brought to Canada the type of mass shooting more common in the neighboring United States.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said six people were found dead at a high school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, two more were found dead at a residence believed to be connected to the incident, and one person died on the way to hospital.
At least two more people were hospitalized with serious or life-threatening injuries and about 25 people were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Police said a suspected attacker was also found dead from a self-inflicted wound, adding that they do not believe there are any other suspects or an ongoing threat to the public.
Police identified the attacker as a woman; It’s an unusual development, as mass shootings in North America are almost always carried out by men.
Police’s active shooter alert said the suspect was described as “a woman in a dress with brown hair.” Police Superintendent Ken Floyd later confirmed at a press conference that the suspect identified in the alert was the same person found dead at the school. Police did not say how many of the victims may have been minors.
ONE OF CANADA’S DEADLIEST MASS CASE CASES
Tumbler Ridge is a remote municipality with a population of approximately 2,400 people in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia, approximately 1,155 km (717 mi) northeast of Vancouver. Images of the town show a snow-covered landscape full of pine trees.
“There were multiple injuries and multiple deaths at the school as officers moved through the scene,” Floyd told reporters. he said.
“We are continuing to triage other victims and I have no information as to whether this number will increase. The scene was very dramatic and there are still many victims of interest,” Floyd said.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement about
In April 2020, a 51-year-old man dressed 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 where his first murders took place.
In Canada’s worst school shooting in December 1989, a gunman killed 14 female students and injured 13 others at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, before committing suicide.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Michael Perry and Don Durfee)
