Fifteen people were taken to hospital after stabbings at multiple locations Sunday in the James Smith Cree Nation and the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said. Rhonda Blackmore, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects, but others appear to have been attacked at random. He gave no motivation. Damien Sanderson, left, and Miles Sanderson are wanted by police in connection with the stabbings. Photo: Royal Canadian Mounted Police/EPA “It’s horrible what happened in our province today,” Blackmore said. He said there were 13 crime scenes where dead or injured people were found. Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were spotted in Saskatchewan’s capital, Regina, around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since then. “If you are in the Regina area, please take precautions and consider sheltering in place,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter. “Don’t leave a safe location. DO NOT approach suspicious people. Don’t pick up hitchhikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or information to 9-1-1. Don’t reveal police locations.” Weldon resident Diane Shier said she was in her garden Sunday morning when she noticed emergency crews a few blocks away. Shier said her neighbor, a man who lived with his grandson, had been killed. “I’m very upset because I lost a good neighbor,” she said. The search for the suspects was conducted as fans enjoying the Labor Day weekend descended on Regina for a sold-out Canadian Football League game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Regina police said that with the assistance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) they were conducting a multi-pronged investigation to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional public safety resources across the city, including the soccer game at Mosaic Stadium”. The alert initially issued by RCMP in Melfort, Saskatchewan at about 7 a.m. was expanded hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta as the two suspects remained at large. Damien Sanderson was described as 5ft 7in and 155lb and Myles Sanderson as 6ft 1in and 200lb. Both were said to have black hair and brown eyes and were possibly driving a black Nissan Rogue. The Saskatchewan health authority said patients are being treated at multiple locations. “Additional personnel have been called in to respond to the influx of casualties,” the spokeswoman, Anne Linemann, said in an email. Mark Oddan, a spokesman for Stars Air Ambulance, said two helicopters were dispatched from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and another from Regina. Oddan said two transported patients from the scene to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while the third transported a patient to Royal University from a hospital in Melfort, a short distance southeast of Weldon. Oddan said that due to privacy laws, he could not disclose information about their age, gender or conditions.
