‘We took tables and blocked the doors’: student reports attack at school in Canada

A student at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where a shooting attack took place that left seven people dead this Tuesday (10) in Canada, told an interview with Canadian radio what it was like to witness the moment at school. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp Darian Quist, who is a senior in high school, said that he had just entered the classroom at around 1:30 pm, local time, when an alarm was triggered in the hallways, advising that the doors be closed because of a blockade. The doors remained locked for some time, and he and his colleagues began to realize that something was wrong. During this period, Darian stated that he received images of the location on his cell phone. “We grabbed tables and blocked the doors” for more than two hours, he said, until police arrived to escort them out of the school. After leaving the building, Darian was reunited with his mother at the community center, located meters away. Darian’s mother, who also participated in the interview, said she stayed on the phone with her son during the incident. She was at work when she heard about the attack, and because it was close to the school, she could see “the Canadian Mounted Police everywhere, firefighters, ambulances.” “There was a police officer crouched down in our parking lot with his gun drawn,” she said. Shelley said at that point she called Darian and asked him to keep her on the line. Still in the interview, the boy said that the school is small and that its graduating class is around 20 years old. He said the school issued a statement saying it will work with police to help students reintegrate when classes resume. “It felt like I was in a place I had only seen on television,” he said. The attack School attack leaves 9 dead and 25 injured in Canada; shooter also died Reproduction/Social Media The attack at the school and at a residence in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, left nine people dead and another 25 injured. The shooter also died, according to local authorities. The case occurred around 1:20 pm local time (7:20 pm in Brasília), at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, which serves around 160 students. The institution is located in a city with just over 2 thousand inhabitants in British Columbia. According to police, at least six victims were found dead inside the school. Two others died in a house that, according to police, was linked to the attack. A ninth person succumbed to his injuries and died on the way to the hospital. The injured were taken to a health unit in the region. Authorities have not released the identities or ages of the victims. Police confirmed that the person who carried out the attacks resembled the person described in an alert sent by authorities earlier this Tuesday (10). According to the Canadian press, the alert described the suspect as a female person wearing a dress and brown hair. In a press conference on the case, local police did not say whether the shooter was an adult or a minor. And it also did not confirm how many of the dead were children. “We are following all leads to try to determine the connection with the shooter,” the spokesperson said. British Columbia’s Public Safety Minister, Nina Krieger, spoke out about the case on social media. “Our thoughts are with all the people of Tumbler Ridge. I have spoken with the mayor and local MP, and we are offering the RCMP any additional assistance they need,” he said in a statement on Until the last update of this report, authorities had not released any further details about the case. Repercussion of the case Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was devastated by the news of the shooting attack. “My prayers and deepest sympathies are with the families and friends who lost loved ones in these horrific acts of violence,” Carney said in a social media post. Carney suspended a planned trip to the Munich Security Conference following the attack. Other political leaders from various parts of Canada have spoken out about the attack. Among them are Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Quebec Premier François Legault. Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre said he was shaken by the news. “I am devastated to learn that many innocent people were killed and injured in a senseless act of violence at a local high school in Tumbler Ridge,” Poilievre wrote. He added that his thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, the students, teachers, emergency responders and the entire community facing this great loss. Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada Google Maps/Reproduction READ ALSO Iranians protest on the eve of the Islamic Revolution holiday and shout from balconies: ‘Death to the dictator’ FBI document suggests that Trump was aware of Epstein’s crimes: ‘Everyone knew’ European Parliament approves rules to toughen measures against immigration VIDEOS: most watched on g1

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