At least 10 dead and 15 injured in a chain of stabbings in Canada – La Vanguardia

At least 10 dead and 15 injured is the provisional balance of the attack committed by two individuals in two towns in the province of Saskatchewan, a territory in central Canada the size of the Iberian Peninsula where just over a million people reside. The police were looking for those responsible for the attack last night, whose motive is unknown. As Rhonda Blackmore of the Canadian Mounted Police reported at a press conference, the attackers went out in search of some of the victims, while others appeared to have been attacked at random. She also reported that the police had established 13 crime scenes, and did not rule out that the number of injuries and deaths would increase. “Some victims might have gone to hospitals on their own,” she noted. “It is horrible what has happened today in our province.” Image of the two suspects released by the Canadian police EFE/EPA/ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE The Police received the first alert call at around 5:40 a.m. local time (11:40 a.m. Spanish time), reporting a stabbing on the James Smith Indian Reserve Cree Nation, where only about 2,000 people reside, and shortly after began receiving numerous calls notifying of stabbings in other locations. The attacks took place, in addition to the James Smith Cree Nation, in the town of Weldon, 25 kilometers away. Two sites located 170 km northeast of Saskatoon, the main city in the area. The perpetrators were identified as Damien and Myles Sanderson by the police, who warned that they fled the scene at the wheel of a black Nissan Rogue and alerted the agents of the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. The two suspects have black hair and brown eyes, and can drive a black Nissan Rogue. Hours after the attack, the fugitives were seen in Regina, the provincial capital, 200 km north of the US border. that this Sunday the Canadian Soccer League game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was held in the city, a real derby in the region that attracted many people. The authorities recommended to the neighbors that they seclude themselves in their houses as a precaution, while asking for their collaboration to report any suspicious person. The injured were transferred by ambulances and three medical helicopters to several hospitals in the area, both in the capital Saskatoon and in other nearby towns. The attack perpetrated in the apparently quiet province of Sakatchewan is the worst massacre in Canada since, in 2020, an armed man posing as a police officer killed 16 people in the province of Nova Scotia Read also Agencies