加拿大政府周二表示，不列颠哥伦比亚省一所学校发生枪击案，造成7人死亡，另有两人在附近一处住宅内被发现死亡。警方认为的枪手——一名女子——也在枪击案中丧生。

加拿大皇家骑警表示，枪击案发生在坦布勒里奇中学，造成25人以上受伤，其中两人伤势危及生命，已被直升机送往医院。

校园枪击案在加拿大较为罕见。

坦布勒里奇镇位于加拿大落基山脉，距离温哥华以北1000多公里（600英里），靠近阿尔伯塔省边界。省政府网站显示，坦布勒里奇中学共有175名学生，涵盖7至12年级。

卑诗省省长戴维·埃比告诉记者，警方在两分钟内抵达了学校。

一段视频显示，学生们举着双手走出学校，警车包围了教学楼，一架直升机在空中盘旋。

警方在一份声明中表示，现场发现六人死亡。一名嫌疑人似乎是“自残”身亡。第八名死者在送往医院途中死亡，另有两人在警方认为与袭击有关的一处住宅内被发现死亡。

加拿大皇家骑警警司肯·弗洛伊德告诉记者，调查人员已锁定一名女性嫌疑人，但不会公布其姓名，枪手的作案动机仍不明。他还补充说，警方仍在调查受害者与枪手之间的关联。

坦布勒里奇市长达里尔·克拉科夫卡表示，整个社区都沉浸在悲痛之中。

“我崩溃了，”他说，得知这个拥有2700名居民的社区有这么多人遇难，他感到“无比悲痛”，他称这个社区就像一个“大家庭”。

“我在这里住了18年，”克拉科夫卡说，“我可能认识每一位遇难者。”

坦布勒里奇团契浸信会的乔治·罗牧师前往了遇难者家属等待更多信息的娱乐中心。

“那场面惨不忍睹。家属们仍在焦急地等待确认死者是否是自己的孩子，由于规章制度，调查组在公布姓名方面非常谨慎，”罗威说。“今晚最让我难过的是，我不得不离开，而家属们仍在焦急地等待消息。这太令人难过了。其他牧师和咨询师也在那里，让他们不至于孤单。”

罗威曾在这所高中任教，他的三个孩子也毕业于此。

他说，“以后再走在这所学校的走廊里，感觉都不一样了。”

加拿大总理马克·卡尼在社交媒体上发文称，他对图姆布勒里奇枪击案感到无比悲痛。

他写道，“我与加拿大人民一起，为那些今天生活被彻底改变的人们感到悲痛，并向那些冒着生命危险保护同胞的急救人员致以崇高的敬意和无私奉献，”

卡尼的办公室表示，他将取消原定前往新斯科舍省哈利法克斯和德国慕尼黑的行程。 他原定于周三在哈利法克斯宣布一项期待已久的国防工业战略，之后前往欧洲参加慕尼黑安全会议。

卑诗省省长埃比告诉记者，在发生他称之为“难以想象的悲剧”后，他已与卡尼通话。

“我知道今晚这让我们所有人都更加紧紧地拥抱自己的孩子，”他说。“我请求卑诗省人民今晚照顾好图姆布勒里奇的人民。”

加拿大政府此前曾对大规模枪击事件采取枪支管制措施，包括最近扩大了对所有被认定为攻击性武器的枪支禁令。

周二的枪击事件是自2020年以来加拿大最致命的枪击事件。2020年，一名枪手在新斯科舍省枪杀了13人，并纵火造成另外9人死亡。

A shooting at a school in British Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a nearby home, Canadian authorities said Tuesday. A woman who police believe to be the shooter also was killed.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said more than 25 people are injured, including two who were airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries, after the shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.

School shootings are rare in Canada.

The town of Tumbler Ridge in the Canadian Rockies is more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) north of Vancouver, near the border with Alberta. The provincial government website lists Tumbler Ridge Secondary School as having 175 students from Grades 7 to 12.

British Columbia Premier David Eby told reporters that police officers reached the school within two minutes.

A video showed students walking out of the school with their hands raised as police vehicles surrounded the building and a helicopter circled overhead.

Police found six people dead, a statement said. A suspect appeared to have died of a “self-inflicted injury.” An eighth person died while being transported to a hospital, and two more were found dead at a home the authorities believe was connected to the attack.

RCMP Superintendent Ken Floyd told reporters that investigators had identified a female suspect but would not release a name, and that the shooter’s motive remained unclear. He added that police are still investigating how the victims are connected to the shooter.

Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka said the whole community is grieving.

“I broke down,” he said, saying it was “devastating” to learn how many had died in the community of 2,700, which he called a “big family.”

“I have lived here for 18 years,” Krakowka said “I probably know every one of the victims.”

The Rev. George Rowe of the Tumbler Ridge Fellowship Baptist Church went to the recreation center where the victims’ families were awaiting more information.

“It was not a pretty sight. Families are still waiting to hear if it’s their child that’s deceased and because of protocol and procedure the investigating team is very careful in releasing names,” Rowe said. “The big thing tonight was my having to walk away and the families still waiting to find out. It is so difficult. Other pastors and counselors are there so they are not alone.”

Rowe once taught at the high school and his three children graduated from there.

“To walk through the corridors of that school will never be the same again,” he said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a social media post that he was devastated by the shooting in Tumbler Ridge.

“I join Canadians in grieving with those whose lives have been changed irreversibly today, and in gratitude for the courage and selflessness of the first responders who risked their lives to protect their fellow citizens,” he wrote.

Carney’s office said he is suspending a planned trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia and Munich, Germany. He was set to announce a long-awaited defense industrial strategy in Halifax on Wednesday before heading to Europe for the Munich Security Conference.

Eby, the province’s premier, told reporters he had spoken to Carney after what he called the “unimaginable tragedy.”

“I know it’s causing us all to hug our kids a little bit tighter tonight,” he said. “I’m asking the people of British Columbia to look after the people of Tumbler Ridge tonight.”

Canada’s government has responded to previous mass shootings with gun control measures, including a recently broadened ban on all guns it considers assault weapons.

Tuesday’s shootings were Canada’s deadliest rampage since 2020, when a gunman in Nova Scotia killed 13 people and set fires that left another nine dead.