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Deputy Chief of Police Rhonda Blackmore
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At least 10 people have been killed in a series of knife attacks in rural Canada, police are warning against letting strangers in or picking up hitchhikers.
15 injured were also taken to hospitals for treatment, said the police in the province of Saskatchewan on Sunday (local time).
"We have 13 active crime scenes that we're investigating," Deputy Police Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said.
"So at some of these crime scenes there may not have been a deceased person, but rather injured people who did not die." However, further injuries cannot be ruled out, since several people apparently did not wait for the emergency services.
You went to the hospital yourself or had yourself taken to the hospital.
The police were initially unable to provide any information on a motive.
"It appears some of the victims were targeted and some were chosen at random," Blackmore said.
"It would therefore be extremely difficult to name a motive at this point."
The victims were attacked in two communities in Saskatchewan, Canadian media reported.
Police are looking for the two male suspects in that province and in the adjacent provinces of Manitoba and Alberta.
The area of these three provinces in central Canada is more than five times the area of Germany.
Concern about potential threat to football fans
"At this time we have no indication that they have traveled to another province, but since they are in a vehicle we cannot say with 100% certainty where they are at the moment," Blackmore said.
"The priority now is to locate her and make sure we have her in custody."
Additional forces were also ordered to a sold-out game in a football stadium in the small town of Regina.
According to the police, the alleged perpetrators are said to have been sighted in the city.
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