Canadian police on Sunday said they were on the hunt for two suspects, Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson believed to have killed 10 people and injured at least 15 others in stabbings in the Saskatchewan province.
Police said the suspects, likely to be brothers, were traveling in a black Nissan Rogue.
“Damien Sanderson was described as five feet seven inches tall and 155 pounds, and Myles Sanderson as six-foot-one and 200 pounds. Both have black hair and brown eyes and may be driving a black Nissan Rogue with licence plate 119 MPI.”
The stabbings were reported early in the morning, and at 8:20 a.m. local time police issued a province-wide dangerous persons alert. By the afternoon, similar alerts were also issued in Saskatchewan’s neighbouring provinces Alberta and Manitoba.
Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said that authorities did not know if they had changed vehicles.
“Their location and direction of travel is unknown,” Blackmore said.“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today.”
Blackmore said police were still in the initial stages of the investigation, and trying to determine the relationship between the two suspects and whether they were known to police.
The attacks happened at multiple locations, including James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon in Saskatchewan, and there were 13 crime scenes that police were investigating, the RCMP in Saskatchewan said.
Police said that some of the victims appeared to have been targeted by the suspects while others were attacked randomly.
There may be additional injured victims who transported themselves to various hospitals, police told reporters at a news conference.
A spokesperson for the Saskatchewan Health Authority in a statement said that the department had called for additional staff to help respond to the situation.
