The police launched a manhunt to find two suspects who also made at least fifteen injured in the province of Saskatchewan.
Le Monde with AFP
Ten people were killed and several others injured on Sunday, September 4, during stabbing attacks in two isolated localities in Canada, police said. The latter launched a manhunt in three provinces to find two suspects.
“We have spotted ten people who died in thirteen places in the localities of James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, in Saskatchewan” (Center of the Country Province), said assistant commissioner of the Royal Canada Gendarmerie, Rhonda Blackmore, during a press conference.
“Several other victims have been injured, of which fifteen have so far been transported in various hospitals,” she added, adding that the police were looking for “two suspects” and investigated the many scenes of crimes “.
An alert on a dangerous person had been broadcast on Sunday morning to the population of the whole province of Saskatchewan by the police, who responded to “multiple attacks in the knife in multiple places”, in the Aboriginal community of James Smith Cree Nation and the village near Weldon.
research on a large territory like half of Europe
The police had received a first call at 05:40 am (local time) reporting a stabbing attack on James Smith Cree Nation, followed by others, said M me Blackmore. Authorities think that “some of the victims have been targeted by the suspects and that others have been attacked at random,” she said.
The suspects were first reported in Regina, the provincial capital more than 300 kilometers to the south. Then the alert and the research extended to the neighboring provinces of Manitoba and Alberta, a large region whose size is equivalent to half that of Europe.
The Saskatchewan health authority told the France-Presse (AFP) agency to have activated emergency protocols to face “a high number of critical patients”.
“We can confirm that several people are being managed and taken care of on several sites and that an appeal to additional staff to help respond to this situation has been made,” she Added.