Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered condolences to Canada following a devastating high school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia that killed at least nine people and injured more than twenty others.
The attack at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School left six dead at the scene, with a seventh victim dying en route to hospital. Police discovered two more bodies at a residence believed connected to the shooting. Twenty-seven people were wounded in total. Authorities found the female suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Sharif expressed his grief on social media, extending sympathies to victims’ families and wishing swift recovery for the injured. “Pakistan stands in solidarity with the people and Government of Canada in this difficult time,” he wrote.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called himself “devastated” by the violence and cancelled his planned trip to the Munich Security Conference. British Columbia Premier David Eby described the tragedy as “unimaginable,” while the province’s public safety minister called it one of Canada’s worst mass shootings in history.
Police have not disclosed the ages of the shooter or victims. Mass shootings remain rare in Canada, though last April a vehicle attack at a Vancouver Filipino festival killed eleven people.
