US EditionCarney Announces Seven Days of Half-Mast Flags and Offers Condolences After B.C. High School Shooting
The shooting left 10 dead including the suspect, with over 25 injured; police are investigating the unclear motive behind the attack in the small community.
- Authorities in northern British Columbia recorded nine people dead after shootings at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and a nearby home, with the attack reported Tuesday.
- About 2,700 residents live in Tumbler Ridge, which is more than 1,000 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, and the school enrolls 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to officials.
- Police reached the school within two minutes as a video showed students evacuating with hands raised, while Royal Canadian Mounted Police said a female suspect was found dead from a self-inflicted wound.
- Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended planned travel to Halifax and Munich and said he was devastated while praising the courage of first responders.
- It was Canada’s deadliest rampage since 2020, and the federal government has banned over 2,500 assault-style firearms and destroyed more than 12,000 under recent compensation programs.
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'A nation mourns with you:’ Carney orders flags at half-mast after deadly Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s previously announced trip to Munich, Germany, has been cancelled in the wake of the deadly Feb. 10 shooting in British Columbia, and Question Period, committee meetings, and other work on Parliament Hill was halted on Feb. 11.
Canada shooting: Mark Carney makes tearful address after mass shooting shocks nation
Mark Carney has delivered a tearful address while speaking to reporters after one of Canada's deadliest shootings sent a quiet town in British Colombia reeling. So far, police have said nine have been killed, along with the shooter, at a secondary school during the mass shooting in the rural community of Tumbler Ridge.Meanwhile, more than 25 others were injured, with the suspect's body - who was described only as a "female in a dress with brown …
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