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<\/p>\nCanada was reeling after a mass shooting targeting a school in a remote mining town, with nine people gunned down in one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s history.<\/p>\n
Information is patchy, partly because of the remoteness of the location in western Canada, but here is what we know so far:<\/p>\n
What happened? <\/p>\n
Yesterday, police in the British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge received a report of an active shooter.<\/p>\n
Officers entered the town’s school and found six dead.<\/p>\n
The presumed shooter was also found with what is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
One victim died on the way to a hospital and two were airlifted with serious or life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
About 25 others were treated for injuries at a nearby medical center.<\/p>\n
Officers found two bodies at a second location that they said was a home linked to the school attack, with searches ongoing at other residences.<\/p>\n
The shooter <\/p>\n
Little is known about the shooter and authorities have been tight-lipped about their identity and possible motives.<\/p>\n
Preliminary information from an initial emergency alert suggested the shooter might have been a “female in a dress with brown hair.”<\/p>\n
The location <\/p>\n
The district of Tumbler Ridge, 1,170km north of Vancouver, has a population of 2,700, according to the local authority.<\/p>\n
Many residents work in the mining, quarrying and hydrocarbon industries.<\/p>\n
The area is also home to a UNESCO Global Geopark, recognized for its international geological significance.<\/p>\n
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Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where the shooting took place, has 175 students from grades seven to 12, according to the local government.<\/p>\n
Images after the shooting showed students being led out of the school with their hands up, under the watch of armed officers.<\/p>\n
Mass shootings in Canada <\/p>\n
Other major mass shootings in Canada include a 6 December 1989 attack when a 25-year-old man claiming to be “anti-feminist” burst into a Montreal school and opened fire exclusively on women.<\/p>\n
He killed 13 female students and a secretary before taking his own life.<\/p>\n
In April 2020, a man disguised as a police officer and driving a fake police car went on a shooting and arson rampage in eastern Canada’s Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n
He killed 22 people following a violent dispute with his partner, and was shot dead by police after a sprawling 12-hour manhunt.<\/p>\n
More shootings <\/p>\n
While mass killings are less frequent in Canada than in the United States, statistics show a steady increase in violent gun crimes.<\/p>\n
Canada recorded 36.9 incidents of firearm-related violent crime per 100,000 people in 2023.<\/p>\n
That’s 22% higher compared to 2018 and 55% higher than 2013.<\/p>\n
In 2020, Canada banned 1,500 models of assault weapons in response to that year’s Nova Scotia killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada was reeling after a mass shooting targeting a school in a remote mining town, with nine people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-292929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}