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Canadian police: 10 dead, 15 injured from stabbings

Published:Sunday | September 4, 2022 | 6:18 PM
Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore speaks while Regina Police Chief Evan Bray (left) looks on during a press conference at RCMP "F" Division Headquarters in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Sunday, September 4, 2022. Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson allegedly stabbed and killed 10 people between James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, Saskatchewan, on Sunday morning, and the two are presently at large. (Michael Bell/The Canadian Press via AP)

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 couldn't 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 were sighted in Saskatchewan's capital of Regina around lunchtime.

There have been so sightings since.

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