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Canada rocked as 10 killed in stabbing spree

Published:Monday | September 5, 2022 | 12:09 AM
Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks next to images of stabbing suspects Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson during a press conference at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police F Division headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday. Police said t
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Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks next to images of stabbing suspects Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson during a press conference at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police F Division headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday. Police said the pair, who were at large up to press time, allegedly killed at least 10 people, wounding 15 others.

REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP):

A series of stabbings in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, authorities said Sunday. Police are looking for two suspects.

The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.

Rhonda Blackmore, the assistant commissioner of the RCMP Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects, but others appear to have been attacked at random. She could not provide a motive.

“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” Blackmore said.

She said there are 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found. She urged the suspects to turn themselves in.

Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects, Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson, were sighted in Saskatchewan’s capital of Regina around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.

“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.

Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barrelling down her street early in the morning as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.

But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.

“He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name, and he kind of mumbled his name twice, and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t show it.”

She said the man was by himself and “kind a little wobbly”.

“I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said, ‘Don’t follow him. Get back here.’”

Weldon resident Diane Shier said she was in her garden Sunday morning when she noticed emergency crews a couple of blocks away.

Shier said her neighbor was killed. She did not want to identify the victim out of respect for his family.

“I am very upset because I lost a good neighbour,” she said.

The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended in Regina for a sold-out annual Labour Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.