At least 10 killed and 15 injured in knife attack in Canada
Canadian police are looking for two suspects: Damien Sanderson and Miles Sanderson
Source: AP/Michael Bell
At least 10 people have been killed and many others injured in knife attacks in remote communities in Canada. The attacks took place at 13 different crime sites in the province of Saskatchewan. Police are looking for two accused.
bAt least ten people have been killed in a series of knife attacks in central Canada. 15 injured were also taken to hospitals for treatment, police in Saskatchewan province said at a news conference in the provincial capital Regina on Sunday (local time). No further details were given about the condition of the victims. Two accused criminals are absconding. He was last seen in an SUV. The motive for the brutal act was initially unclear in the evening.
Police officer Rhonda Blackmore said, “It appears that some victims were targeted and some were randomly selected.” “So it would be extremely difficult to name a motive at this point in time.” There are 13 active crime scenes that are being investigated. “So some of these crime scenes may not have had a dead person, but instead there were injured people who weren’t dead,” Blackmore said. Further victims cannot be ruled out as it was not clear whether all the affected people had informed the authorities.
Blackmore said the victims were attacked in two places in Saskatchewan – in the James Smith Cree Nation reservation for indigenous peoples and in the village of Weldon. The first emergency call was received at 5:40 a.m., and further attacks were reported from nearby crime sites in the minutes that followed. After 7 am, the police issued an early warning to the people. Four hours later, the two suspects are said to have been seen in the provincial capital, Regina, about 300 kilometers further south.
Police looking for suspects
The provincial prime minister tweeted his condolences on behalf of his government. “All Saskatchewan mourns with the victims and their families.” Scott Mo. wrote From the conservative Saskatchewan Party.
Police were looking for two male suspects, aged 31 and 30, there and in the neighboring provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. The area of these three provinces in central Canada is more than five times that of Germany. Saskatchewan alone is almost twice the size of Germany, but with a much smaller population of just under 1.2 million.
“At this time, we have no evidence that he traveled to any other province,” Blackmore said. Particular attention is paid to Regina, the provincial capital with about 230,000 inhabitants. There people were asked to stay at a safe place and not to take hitchhikers. Additional forces were also ordered for a game at a football stadium, it said.
