Shootings at school and home in British Columbia, Canada, leave 10 dead including suspect

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A shooting astatine a schoolhouse successful distant bluish British Columbia near 7 radical dead, portion 2 much were recovered dormant astatine a adjacent home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. A pistillate believed by constabulary to beryllium the shooter was besides recovered dead, seemingly from a self-inflicted wound.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said much than 25 radical were wounded, including 2 who were airlifted to infirmary with life-threatening injuries, aft the shooting astatine Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

School shootings are uncommon successful Canada, which has strict weapon power laws.

The municipality of Tumbler Ridge successful the Canadian Rockies is much than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) northeast of Vancouver, adjacent the provincial borderline with Alberta. The provincial authorities website lists Tumbler Ridge Secondary School arsenic having 175 students from Grades 7 to 12.

British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters that constabulary officers reached the schoolhouse wrong 2 minutes.

A video showed students walking retired of the schoolhouse with their hands raised arsenic constabulary vehicles surrounded the gathering and a chopper circled overhead.

Police recovered six radical dead, a connection said. A seventh idiosyncratic died portion being transported to a hospital, and 2 much were recovered dormant astatine a residence the authorities judge was connected to the attack. A fishy appeared to person died of a “self-inflicted injury.”

RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters that investigators had identified a pistillate fishy but would not merchandise a name, and that the shooter's motive remained unclear. He added that constabulary are inactive investigating the transportation betwixt the shooter and the victims.

Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka said the full assemblage is grieving.

“I broke down,” helium said, saying it was “devastating” to larn however galore had died successful the assemblage of 2,700, which helium called a “big family.”

“I person lived present for 18 years,” Krakowka said. “I astir apt cognize each 1 of the victims.”

The Rev. George Rowe of the Tumbler Ridge Fellowship Baptist Church went to the recreation halfway wherever the victims' families were awaiting much information.

“It was not a beauteous sight. Families are inactive waiting to perceive if it’s their kid that’s deceased and due to the fact that of protocol and procedure, the investigating squad is precise cautious successful releasing names,” Rowe said. “The large happening contiguous was my having to locomotion distant and the families inactive waiting to find out. It is truthful difficult. Other pastors and counselors are there, truthful they are not alone.”

Rowe erstwhile taught astatine the precocious schoolhouse and his 3 children graduated from there.

“To locomotion done the corridors of that schoolhouse volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again,” helium said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said successful a societal media station that helium was devastated by the shooting.

“I articulation Canadians successful grieving with those whose lives person been changed irreversibly today, and successful gratitude for the courageousness and selflessness of the archetypal responders who risked their lives to support their chap citizens,” helium wrote.

Carney’s bureau said helium is suspending a planned travel to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Munich, Germany. He was acceptable to denote a long-awaited defence concern strategy successful Halifax connected Wednesday earlier heading to Europe for the Munich Security Conference.

Eby, the province's premier, told reporters helium had spoken to Carney aft what helium called the “unimaginable tragedy.”

“I cognize it’s causing america each to hug our kids a small spot tighter tonight,” helium said. “I’m asking the radical of British Columbia to look aft the radical of Tumbler Ridge tonight.”

Canada’s authorities has responded to erstwhile wide shootings with weapon power measures, including a precocious broadened prohibition connected each guns it considers battle weapons.

Tuesday's shootings were Canada's deadliest rampage since 2020, erstwhile a gunman successful Nova Scotia killed 13 radical and acceptable fires that near different 9 dead.

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Gillies reported from Toronto.

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