At least nine people have been sh0t and k!lled at a high school and a residential property in a rural mountain town in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Police found six people de@d and dozens injured when they responded to reports of an active shooter at the school in Tumbler Ridge, a tight-knit town in the province’s northeast, around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday local time.
Another person d!ed while being transported to the hospital, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.
Two more people were found de@d at a residence believed to be connected to the incident, police said in a statement.
The suspected shooter was found deceased at the school with “what appears to be a self-inflicted injury,” said police.
The suspect was described as a brown-haired woman wearing a dress, in an emergency alert which went out to residents’ phones, according to CNN affiliate CBC News.
Two victims were airlifted from the school to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. About 25 other people with non-life-threatening injuries are being treated at a local medical centre, police said.
Tumbler Ridge Secondary School has 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.
Police have not yet determined a motive for the shooting, Superintendent Ken Floyd, North District commander, said in a press conference Tuesday.
“We are not in a place now to be able to understand why or what may have motivated this tragedy,” Floyd said.
“I think we will struggle to determine the ‘why,’ but we will try our best to determine what transpired,” he added.
It is not yet clear how many of the dead were children, or what, if any, their connections were to the shooter, Floyd said.
Police have identified the shooter but will not be releasing details for privacy reasons, Floyd said. He declined to say whether the sho0ter was a child.