VANCOUVER, British Columbia
A female shooter opened fire at a secondary school in northern British Columbia on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 25 others before being found dead at the scene, authorities said.
Two additional victims were later discovered dead at a nearby home, bringing the total killed to 10, including the shooter, in a rare Canadian mass shooting.
The attack occurred at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, which serves about 175 students in Grades 7 through 12.
The small, remote community of Tumbler Ridge has a population of roughly 2,400 people and is located more than 600 miles north of Vancouver.
Police did not release the name of the suspected shooter and said the motive remained unclear. “We are not in a place to understand why or what may have motivated this tragedy,” RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters.
Two of the wounded were airlifted to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Investigators are still working to determine the relationship between the shooter and the victims.
School shootings are exceedingly rare in Canada, which has stricter gun laws than the United States, making the scale of the violence in Tumbler Ridge a profound shock to the nation.
By James Kisoo
