Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced late Tuesday that he has postponed a planned trip to Europe following a mass shooting in western Canada that left ten people dead.
Seven of the victims were killed inside a secondary school. The suspected gunman is also among the dead, with police indicating that he is believed to have taken his own life.
The attack also left 27 people injured, two of them seriously. The shooting took place in Tumbler Ridge, a town of around 2,300 residents at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in the province of British Columbia.
Carney had been scheduled to travel to Europe to attend the Munich Security Conference, where approximately sixty heads of state and government, along with around one hundred foreign and defence ministers, are expected to gather over the weekend.
In a post on X, the prime minister said he was “shocked” by the “horrific” massacre in the remote western region of the country.
“I join all Canadians in mourning those whose lives were irreversibly changed today, and in expressing gratitude for the courage and selflessness of our security forces and first responders,” he wrote.
Mass casualty attacks of this kind are rare in Canada. However, this marks the second major incident in British Columbia in less than a year. In April 2025, eleven people were killed in Vancouver when a man drove a vehicle into a crowd gathered for a Filipino cultural event.
Source: AMNA