Shooting attack in Canada: attacks are rare in the country, which has strict gun laws

Shooting attack at school and home leaves 10 dead and 25 injured in Canada A rare shooting attack at a school and home in Canada left ten people dead and another 25 injured on Tuesday (10). The perpetrator of the attack also died, according to local authorities. ✅ Follow the g1 international news channel on WhatsApp The attack, one of the deadliest in Canada (read more below), took place in Tumbler Ridge, a small town of just over 2,000 inhabitants in the British Columbia region, a region in western Canada. At around 1:20 pm local time (7:20 pm Brasília time), the shooter opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, a high school in the city that serves around 160 students, according to police. Map shows the location of a shooting attack at a school in Canada, on February 10, 2026. art/ g1 Six people died inside the school, and two others were found dead inside a house near the school, according to the police. One of the victims was rescued, but died on the way to the hospital, where the other injured were taken. The health status of the survivors had not yet been disclosed until the last update of this report. The shooter was found dead inside the school, with signs that she took her own life, police said. ‘We took tables and blocked the doors’: student reports attack at school in Canada In an alert issued to residents during the attack, police described the suspect as a female person wearing a dress and having brown hair. According to the Canadian newspaper “Western Standard”, the shooter was identified as Jesse Strang, an 18-year-old transgender woman who studied at the school. Her identity was confirmed to the newspaper by her colleagues, who described her as a “calm and good person”, but who was “quiet and a bit out of place”. Attacks are rare in Canada Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, in the province of British Columbia, Canada, was the target of a shooting attack on February 10, 2026 Trent Ernst/AFP ➡️ The case shocked the city and the whole of Canada, where shooting attacks are very uncommon, unlike what occurs in the neighboring United States. Canadian legislation imposes much stricter laws than those in the USA for the purchase and possession of weapons. Citizens can carry weapons with specific and restricted licenses. Furthermore, it is mandatory that they keep weapons locked and unloaded. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government introduced a series of restrictions on the ownership of pistols and assault weapons in recent years, partly in response to shootings in the US, including in Nova Scotia and at a school in Uvalde, Texas. However, attempts to ban certain types of rifles and shotguns were abandoned after resistance from farmers and hunters. The shooting is among the deadliest in Canadian history. In April 2020, a 51-year-old man, disguised in a police uniform and driving a fake police car, killed 22 people in an attack that lasted 13 hours in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia, before being killed by police at a gas station about 90 km from the site of the first murders. In the worst school massacre in Canadian history, in December 1989, a gunman killed 14 students and injured 13 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, before committing suicide. ‘We blocked the doors’ In an interview with Canadian radio CBC, school senior Darian Quist said he had just entered the classroom when an alarm was triggered in the hallways. The alert, he said, instructed students to close the doors, which were locked. Quist stated that, after a while, he and his colleagues realized that something was wrong and started seeing images of the school on their cell phones. “We took tables and blocked the doors” for more than two hours, he said, until police arrived and removed them from the school. Darian’s mother said she stayed on the phone with her son during the incident. Also in an interview, she said she was at work when she heard about the attack and, being 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. 👉 Tumbler Ridge, site of the shooting, is a remote municipality with a population of about 2,400 people, situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in northern British Columbia, approximately 1,155 km northeast of Vancouver. Images of the city show a landscape covered in snow and full of pine trees. Tumbler Ridge Middle School, where the attack occurred, has 160 students in grades seven through 12, ages 12 to 18, according to its website. The school will remain closed for the rest of the week and will offer psychological support to anyone who needs it, school authorities said. 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. “This is a small, close-knit community, with a small detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who responded within two minutes, undoubtedly saving lives today,” Nina Krieger, British Columbia’s public safety minister, told reporters. Carney suspended a planned trip to the Munich Security Conference following the attack. Other political leaders from various parts of Canada spoke out about the attack, such as the heads of government of the regions of Saskatchewan, Scott Moe, and Quebec, 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. 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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