Regina, Saskatchewan – Canadian authorities said, Sunday, that a series of stabbing attacks in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 injured. Police are looking for two suspects.
Police said the stabbings took place at several locations in the nation of James Smith Cree and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon.
Rhonda Blackmore, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appeared to have been targeted by the suspects, but others appeared to have been indiscriminately attacked. Couldn’t provide a motive.
“It’s horrific what happened in our county today,” Blackmore said.
She said that there are 13 crime scenes where either dead or injured people were found.
The suspects were sought when fans descended on Regina for the annual sold-out Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Rogriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
In a press release, the Regina Police Department said it was working with Montez’s help on several fronts to locate and arrest suspects and “deployed additional public safety resources throughout the city, including the football match at Mosaic Stadium.”
The alert first issued by Melfort and the Saskatchewan RCMP around 7 a.m. was extended after hours to cover Manitoba and Alberta, where the two suspects remained at large.
Damian Sanderson, 31, is described as five feet seven inches and 155 pounds, and Miles Sanderson, 30, is six feet seven inches and 200 pounds. They both have black hair, brown eyes and probably drive a black Nissan Rogue.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said many patients were receiving treatment in several locations.
“A call for additional staff has been issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Ann Lynman said in an email.
Mark Auden, an air ambulance spokesman, said two helicopters were dispatched from Saskatoon and Saskatchewan, and one from Regina.
He said two of the patients were taken to the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while the third had taken patients to the Royal University from a hospital in Melfort, a short distance southeast of Weldon.
Oden said that due to privacy laws, he cannot disclose information about their ages, genders or circumstances.
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