Canada, Tumbler Ridge
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The photo was of a woman entirely unrelated to the shooting. Her mother has reportedly said she's "afraid to go outside."
Just over 40 years ago, Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was created as a vision of Canada’s future. Although it was hacked out of deep mountain woods as a base for two new mines to supply coal to Japanese steel makers, it had little in common with most Canadian resource communities aside from its remoteness.
The small community of Tumbler Ridge is broken and still trying to comprehend the depth of sorrow it is experiencing after eight people, most of them children, were shot on Tuesday. The tight knit community of 2,
Tumbler Ridge is the type of town where everyone knows everyone. And as the tiny mountain community reels from one of Canada’s worst school shootings in decades, it is the type of place where “everybody’s going to be grieving,
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid a bouquet of flowers at a makeshift memorial yesterday as he visited the grief-stricken town of Tumbler
The shooting occurred in Tumbler Ridge, a remote community in British Columbia. The police said the suspect died of a self-inflicted injury.
The families of the victims of the mass shooting in a remote Canadian town are grappling with unrelenting grief as details emerge about those killed in the country’s deadliest mass shooting in years.
Maya Gebala, 12, one of the survivors and heroes of the Tumbler Ridge massacre, still cannot breathe on her own, but her mother says her swelling is lessening.