A total of nine people were killed — most of them at a school — and more than two dozen wounded after an active shooter opened fire in a small community in Canada’s British Columbia.
The suspected shooter is also dead, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.
The gunfire was reported at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, at about 1:20 p.m., the RCMP said.
Officers responding to the scene found six people dead inside the school, and another person died while being taken to the hospital, police said.
Two other victims were airlifted to the hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. About 25 others were being assessed for injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, authorities said.
As part of the investigation, police identified what they called a “secondary location believed to be connected to the incident” where two other victims were found dead inside a residence, police said.
“Officers are conducting further searches of additional homes and properties to determine whether anyone else may be injured or otherwise linked to today’s events,” the RCMP said in the statement.
The shooting sparked a lockdown at the school, police said.
Tumbler Ridge is a small community of about 2,400 people located in the Northern Rockies in northeastern British Columbia.
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