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Less than a year after 11 people died in a car-ramming attack in the city of Vancouver, Canadians are dealing with another mass killing, which also happened in the western province of British Columbia.

Most of those who died on Tuesday were at a school in the remote mountain community of Tumbler Ridge.

Police have named the person suspected of killing eight people as 18-year-old Jesse von Rutzeller.

The shootings not only happened at a school but also at the suspect's family home.

Vanessa Munn from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the RCMP, have spoken about the victims.

The police said that Jesse Von Rootseller was a student at the school but left four years ago and the suspect, on more than one occasion, had been apprehended under mental health laws for an assessment.

Duane MacDonald, also from the RCMP, gave further details.

Srishti Gangdev, a reporter with 1130 News Radio in Vancouver, has been covering the story.

And the suspect went to school in this area?

School shootings, of course, sadly all too common in the United States, but this is one of the worst events of its kind ever in Canada.

I think by my count, it's one of the deadliest ever in Canadian history, both for school shootings and mass shootings in general.