MILAN (AP) — The Canadian Olympic Committee mentioned it’s “heartbroken” by a school shooting in British Columbia that left not less than seven folks useless and lots of others wounded.
Workforce Canada issued a press release on the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday, the morning after the lethal taking pictures at Tumbler Ridge Secondary College.
“We’re heartbroken by the information of the horrific college taking pictures that occurred in British Columbia. Our ideas are with the households who’ve misplaced family members, those that are injured, and the whole Tumbler Ridge group. Workforce Canada stands with everybody affected as they navigate tough days forward,” the assertion mentioned.
Canadian authorities mentioned Tuesday that there have been 10 deaths in whole. The college taking pictures left seven useless, authorities mentioned, whereas two extra folks have been discovered useless at a close-by dwelling. A lady who police imagine to be the shooter additionally was killed.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police mentioned greater than 25 folks have been injured, together with two who have been hospitalized with life-threatening accidents.
Tumbler Ridge Secondary College, situated within the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, has 175 college students from Grades 7 to 12, in response to the provincial authorities’s web site.
The city is greater than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) north of Vancouver, close to the border with Alberta.
