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A remote mountain town in Canada has been shaken by the country’s deadliest school shooting in decades, when an armed assailant killed at least nine people.
Police found six people dead and dozens injured when they arrived at the high school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of just 2,400 people in northeast British Columbia, early on Tuesday afternoon. Another person died en route to hospital, police said.
The alleged shooter, who was found dead at the school with a self-inflicted injury, is believed to have killed two more people, whose bodies were discovered at a home in the township
Two victims were airlifted from the school to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. And about 25 other people were also being treated at a local medical center, police said.
In an emergency alert which went out to residents’ phones, authorities described the suspect as a brown-haired woman wearing a dress, according to CNN affiliate CBC News.
Police know the identity of the suspect but did not give further details, and declined to say if they were a child.
Officers did not name any of the victims on Tuesday night and would not say how many of the dead were children.
In 2023, 38% of homicides in Canada involved a firearm, while 76% of homicides in the US were firearm-related, according to an analysis by using police-reported data from the Uniform Crime Reporting programs in both countries.
Gun ownership in Canada is also far less common than in the US. According to the , there are 121 firearms for every 100 residents in the US compared to an estimated 35 guns per 100 residents in Canada.
