Canadian police reported Monday that one of the suspects in the killing of at least 10 people in a series of stabbings has been found dead with injuries that appear not to be self-inflicted.
Damien Sanderson, 31, is the one found shot to death, according to Canadian media.
The police have clarified that the two suspects are brothers and believe that Myles Sanderson, 30, is hiding in Regina, the capital and second largest city of Saskatchewan, the Canadian province.
Investigators have reason to believe the escaped suspect is injured and have issued a warning should he seek medical attention.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP for its acronym in English) knew almost immediately the identity of the alleged perpetrators of the stabbing deaths of 10 people and the injuries of at least 18 others, according to the updated figures published this Monday. by the authorities.
This same Monday the first charges had been filed against both, before the death of one of them was known.
The massacre took place on the James Smith Indian Reservation, inhabited by members of the Cree people, and in the small neighboring town of Weldon, but the flight of at least one of the suspects through a vast and sparsely populated territory has forced the agents to extend the persecution of an area whose extension is similar to that of half of Europe.
Damien has been found dead on the same Indian reservation where most of the stabbings took place.
After his messages on Twitter this Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today gave a brief speech of condolences and condemnation of the attacks.
“This kind of violence or any kind of violence has no place in our country,” he has said.
The slaughter is one of the largest in recent decades in Canada.
In April 2020, in Portapique, Nova Scotia, a gunman posing as a police officer killed at least 22 people during a 12-hour rampage, in the country's worst mass shooting in modern times.
In Montreal, Quebec, in December 1989, a gunman killed 14 students, all women, and wounded 13 at the École Polytechnique before committing suicide.
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