WATCH: bus murder shocks premier

Thursday night’s murder on a Kelowna transit bus is drawing reaction from across the province.

It didn’t go unnoticed by the premier.

In Kelowna for a sod turning ceremony Thursday, Christy Clark says she was shocked to hear the news and says it’s obvious that bus security has to be looked at.

“For an incident like this to have happened in Kelowna is shocking. First we need to know what happened here and where there are gaps in our safety system because everyone who takes public transit needs to know they’re safe.”

Les Milton, head of the local transit union, says Thursday’s incident was the first killing on a Kelowna transit bus since its creation in 1977. He says it was a big city crime.

“We definitely lost our innocence Thursday night. We always thought we had a special little thing here but last night the big city problems got to us.”

BC transit security on its fleet has been a growing concern.

“Random attacks are almost impossible to prepare for,” says spokesperson Meribeth Burton. “What we can tell you is we have been for some time looking at the viability of security cameras on buses. We’re planning to go to the market place December 2014 with a roll out in the spring of 2015.”

Some of the transit drivers Global Okanagan spoke to in Kelowna indicated they were under the impression that the Kelowna buses were already equipped with security cameras.