Nine people killed in the attacks, six were found dead in Tumbler Ridge Secondary School while a seventh died on the way to hospital. Two other people were found dead at a nearby residence. The suspected attacker was also found dead at the school with a self-inflicted injury - authorities have said they know the attacker's identity but have not revealed their name or gender.

A shelter-in-place alert sent to phones in the area described the suspected attacker as a "female in a dress with brown hair". 

At least two other people were taken to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries following the attack, and as many as 25 people were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police said. 

A lockdown in both the secondary school and nearby elementary school has been lifted but both will remain closed for the remainder of the week.  

Police are yet to share details of the suspect and say they do not yet know their connection to the school. Police believe there could be a link between the attacks at the school and nearby residence "but are not in a position to provide that definitively"

'We all know the victims,' says local town councillor

Councillor Chris Norbury who has been speaking live from Canada with BBC Radio 4's Today programme described just how much of a shock the mass shooting has been to the small Tumbler Ridge community.

"We don't lock our doors here," Norbury says. "It is an incredibly safe community... we don't have to worry about crime here."

He describes going to the secondary school and seeing emergency services blocking the entrance.

Norbury adds: "We have three police vehicles in our town, we are very small. We are a small community. We know each other, we all know the victims. They are our friends, our friends' children."

Nine people have been killed and at least 25 injured in a shooting at a school and nearby house in the "small tight-knit community" of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia - here's the latest: