Police are searching for two suspects after ten people had been killed and 15 others hospitalized in a series of stabbings in Canada’s Saskatchewan province.
Authorities advised residents of the province to consider sheltering in place while the hunt was underway.
The attacks had happened on Sunday morning in James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon, involved locations, with at least 15 persons being treated at hospitals, officers stated at a news convention.
It was possible more victims took private vehicles to seek treatment, the government stated.
“The attacks in Saskatchewan nowadays are terrible and heartbreaking,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted Sunday evening. “I’m thinking of those who’ve lost a cherished one and individuals who had been injured.”
Rhonda Blackmore, the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police commanding officer, stated it had become one of the worst mass killings in the province’s history, if not the worst.
“We believe the suspects have targeted a number of the victims, and others had been attacked randomly,” she stated at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
Authorities gave the name’s Damien Sanderson, aged 31, and Myles Sanderson, aged 30, as wanted suspects. They had been believed to be travelling in a black Nissan Rogue SUV with Saskatchewan plate identity 119 MPI.
