At approximately 1:20 p.m. local time in the remote town of Tumbler Ridge in British Columbia, an 18-year-old transgender ex-student, Jesse Van Rootselaar, began a mass shooting that became one of the deadliest in recent Canadian history. The violence started at the suspect’s home where she fatally shot her 39-year-old mother and her 11-year-old stepbrother before proceeding to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, a small public school serving around 175 students. Upon arriving at the school, officers received reports of an active shooter and initiated lockdown procedures. At the school, the suspect opened fire in a stairwell and library, killing six people including a 39-year-old female teacher and five students aged between 12 and 13. The suspect was later found dead at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Two firearms, a long gun and a modified handgun, were recovered by police. Twenty-seven others were wounded, with some receiving serious injuries and at least two airlifted to larger hospitals for treatment. Authorities stated there was no immediate evidence that victims were specifically targeted and that the suspect had previously held a firearms licence that expired in 2024 and had a history of mental health-related police visits. Students and staff sheltered and barricaded themselves during the attack, with accounts of hiding for hours. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who reached the school within minutes, continue to investigate the motive.

At around 12:15 pm local time, a gunman wearing an explosive device opened fire at the gate of the Shi’ite Khadija Tul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai Kalan area on the outskirts of Islamabad during Friday prayers. The gunman then detonated the explosive device inside the mosque, killing at least 31 people and wounding about 169 others. Security forces responded quickly and transported the injured to hospitals. Pakistan’s defence minister alleged that the bomber had links to Afghanistan and also accused India of involvement, a claim New Delhi categorically denied. The attack took place amid heightened security in the capital during an official visit by Uzbekistan’s president.

According to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), at around midday a group of small, armed boats attempted to intercept a tanker flying a US flag roughly 16 nautical miles north of Oman in the inbound Traffic Separation Scheme of the Strait of Hormuz. The armed boats hailed the vessel on very high frequency radio and requested that it stop and prepare to be towed. The ship ignored the communications and continued on its planned course. Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency later cited unnamed Iranian officials claiming a vessel had entered Iranian territorial waters without the required permits, was warned, and subsequently left without any significant security event. Later in the day, at around 7:15 pm local time, a US F35 aircraft shot down an Iranian Shahed 139 drone that got too close to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.

At around 5:30 pm local time, heavily armed militants launched coordinated attacks on the rural villages of Woro and Nuku in Kaiama Local Government Area (LGA), Kwara State, and the Tafoki community in Faskari LGA, Katsina State. The assailants are believed to be members of the Islamic State Sahel Province-affiliated group locally known as Lakurawa, which operates in north-west and central Nigeria. The attacks reportedly followed residents’ refusal to adopt Sharia law and reject Nigeria’s constitution. The gunmen rounded up villagers, bound their hands, and executed at least 162–170+ people by slitting their throats, while others were burned alive or shot dead. The militants also set fire to numerous homes and shops. An unspecified number of villagers were wounded, and an unknown number were kidnapped. The attacks underscore Nigeria’s worsening security crisis, drew national and international condemnation over government security failures, and prompted calls for enhanced protection of vulnerable communities.

At about 2 pm local time, several explosions were reported in multiple cities across Iran, including the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, Ahvaz, Tabriz, and Karaj, the holy city of Qom, and, according to some reports, also in the Parand suburb of Tehran. Iranian authorities rejected reports that the explosion in Bandar Abbas targeted and killed the commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Navy, Ali Reza Tangestani, and stated that the blasts were caused by gas leaks at residential buildings. The explosions caused at least one fatality and injured at least ten other people. In an earlier explosion in the city of Ahvaz, near the border with Iraq, four people were killed. The explosion in the city of Qom also occurred at a residential building in the Pardisan neighborhood and injured seven people. Iranian officials also claimed that at least one other explosion was caused by the detonation of old military ammunition. Israel officially denied any involvement in the explosions, which were likely carried out by opposition elements in an attempt to revive anti-regime protests and draw the US into military intervention.