Ten people were killed in the attacks in Saskatchewan, Canada. Police issue arrest warrants for two suspects. One of the two alleged perpetrators has now been found dead.
A day after the knife attacks that killed 10 people in rural Canada, police found one of the two suspected brothers dead. "He had visible wounds that we do not believe at this time were self-inflicted," said lead investigator Rhonda Blackmore in Regina, the Saskatchewan provincial capital.
The body of the 31-year-old was found in tall grass in the James Smith Cree Nation Indigenous Reservation. The second suspect, his brother who is one year younger, has not yet been arrested, according to police. Investigators believe he is injured and may seek medical attention. They would neither confirm nor rule out that he was involved in the death of the other.
Police suspect the two brothers to be responsible for the bloody crimes at two locations in Saskatchewan - on the James Smith Cree Nation reservation and in the village of Weldon. Ten victims were killed and 18 injured. The motive of the alleged perpetrators is unclear. The search for the second suspect is also increasing in Regina, which is around 300 kilometers to the south. An arrest warrant has already been issued for him.
It is one of the deadliest crimes in Canada in recent years. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the attacks "heartbreaking" in a video message. "That kind of violence has no place in our country," Trudeau said. Unfortunately, however, "tragedies like this" have "become all too commonplace" in recent years. The federal government in Berlin spoke of a "brutal knife attack". The act "shook the Chancellor and the federal government very much," said government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.
