Ten people were killed in the attacks in Saskatchewan, Canada. Police issue arrest warrants for two suspected brothers. One of the two is found dead, the second is being searched for four days. Now the man is caught.
After the knife attacks that killed at least ten people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, the police arrested the second suspect. "Myles Sanderson was located (...) near Rosthern, Saskatchewan, and taken into custody," Saskatchewan police said on Wednesday (local time). There is no longer any risk to public safety, the authorities said in an online service.
The suspect was on the run for several days, authorities had warned the residents of the region about the man "classified as dangerous". The second suspect, Damien Sanderson, who is Myles Sanderson's brother, was found dead at one of the crime scenes on Tuesday. His body had injuries that police say he may not have inflicted on himself.
Myles Sanderson's parole record shows, according to media reports, that he has 59 criminal records and a violent past. He was released on parole in February after serving several years in prison. Myles Sanderson has been wanted since May for violating his parole, police said.
In one of Canada's deadliest crimes in recent years, knife attacks were carried out at 13 separate crime scenes in the Indigenous community of James Smith Cree Nation and the neighboring town of Weldon. The police recovered ten bodies, 18 other people were injured, some seriously. Ten victims remain in hospital, three of them in critical condition. Most of the victims are indigenous people. The Saskatoon Tribal Council (STC) said it was relieved that Sanderson had been arrested. "Now people can feel safe again, but it's also time to start healing," said STC chief Mark Arcand, who lost his sister and nephew in the attacks.
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.
