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   Feb 10 (Reuters) - Ten people are ?dead ?including the shooter after a   
   woman opened ?fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday before   
   turning the gun on ?herself, police said.   
      
   The outburst, one of the country's deadliest mass casualty events in   
   recent history, brought to Canada the type of mass shooting ?more common   
   in the neighboring United States.   
      
   Six ?people were found dead inside a high school in the town of Tumbler   
   Ridge in British Columbia, two more people were ?found dead at ?a   
   residence believed to be connected to the incident, and another person   
   died on ?the way to hospital, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.   
      
   At least two other people were hospitalized with serious or   
   life-threatening injuries, and as many as 25 people were being treated   
   for non-life-threatening injuries, police said.   
      
   A suspected shooter was also found dead from what appears to be a   
   self-inflicted ?injury, police said, adding they did not believe there   
   were any more suspects or ongoing threat to the public.   
      
   Police ?described the ?shooter as a woman - an ?unusual development as   
   mass ?shootings in North America are almost always carried out by men.   
      
   A police active shooter alert said the suspect was ?described "as female   
   in a dress with ?brown hair." Police Superintendent Ken Floyd later   
   confirmed at a press conference that the suspect described in the alert   
   was the same person found dead in the school. Police did not say how   
   many of the victims may have been minors.   
      
   ONE OF CANADA'S DEADLIEST MASS-CASUALTY INCIDENTS   
      
   Tumbler Ridge is a remote municipality with a population of around 2,400   
   people in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern ?British   
   Columbia, approximately 1,155 km (717 miles) northeast of Vancouver.   
   Images of the town show a snow-covered landscaped ?filled with pine   
   trees.   
      
   "Multiple injuries and multiple deceased were inside the school as   
   officers progressed through the scene,"  Floyd told reporters.   
      
   "We're still triaging other victims, and I don't have updates on whether   
   that number could rise. The scene was very dramatic, and there are   
   multiple victims that are still being cared for," Floyd said.   
      
   Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement on X: "I am   
   devastated by today’s horrific shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. My   
   prayers and deepest condolences are with the families and friends who   
   have lost loved ones to these horrific acts of violence."   
      
   In April 2020, a 51-year-old man disguised in a police uniform and   
   driving a fake police car shot and ?killed 22 people in a 13-hour   
   rampage in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before police killed   
   him at a gas station about 90 km (60 miles) from the site of his first   
   killings.   
      
   In Canada's worst school shooting, in December 1989, a gunman killed 14   
   female students and wounded 13 at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal,   
   Quebec, before ?committing suicide.   
      
   (Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa and Ryan Patrick Jones in Toronto;   
   Writing by Daniel ?Trotta; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Michael Perry   
   and Don Durfee)   
      
   https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-02-10/ten-dead-after-a-sh   
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