The stabbings occurred at 13 different locations across the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, police said.
RCMP said they are looking for 31-year-old Damien Sanderson and 30-year-old Myles Sanderson in connection with the stabbings. Damien Sanderson was described as 5’7″ and weighed about 155 pounds. Police said Miles Sanderson is 6’1″ and about 200 pounds. Police believe they may be driving a black Nissan Rogue. Two men suspected in a series of knife attacks in Saskatchewan, Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Saskatchewan RCMP Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects, but others appear to have been attacked at random. He could not motivate. “It’s horrible what happened in our province today,” Blackmore said. Blackmore said police began receiving reports before 6 a.m. of stabbings in the First Nation community. More reports of attacks quickly followed, and by noon police issued an alert that a vehicle believed to be carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina. Police said the last tip they had from the public was that the suspects were seen there around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since then. “If you are in the Regina area, take precautions and consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a safe location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitchhikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or information to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter. 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, was killed. He did not want to identify the victim out of respect for his family. “I’m very upset because I lost a good neighbor,” she said. The search for suspects was conducted as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. A statement from the Saskatchewan Roughriders regarding game day security. pic.twitter.com/JydhFxK7uw — Saskatchewan Roughriders (@sskroughriders) September 4, 2022 The Regina Police Service said in a press release that with the help of the Mounties, it was working on multiple fronts to locate and apprehend the suspects and had “deployed additional public safety resources across the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium “. The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP at about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta as the two suspects remained at large. The Saskatchewan health authority said many patients are being treated at various locations. “Additional personnel have been called in to respond to the influx of victims,” ​​authorities 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. He said two were transporting patients to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while the third was transporting 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.