Prime minister to meet mourners in mining town as families speak of their loss in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings
Canadian prime minister Mark Carney is to join mourners in Tumbler Ridge on Friday, as authorities and relatives released details of the six children and assistant teacher killed by a shooter in the remote mining town’s high school.
Carney will attend a vigil in Tumbler Ridge in memory of the victims, and he invited leaders from all political parties to join him in the town, the site of the country’s deadliest mass shooting in years.
Among the dead was 12-year-old Kylie Smith, whose family remembered her as “the light in our family”.
“She loved her family, friends, and going to school,” her family said in a statement. “She was a talented artist and had dreams of going to art school in the big city of Toronto. Rest in paradise, sweet girl, our family will never be the same without you.”
