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 the 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.
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Police suspect the two brothers are responsible for the bloody crimes at two locations in Saskatchewan – on the James Smith Cree Nation reservation and in the village of Weldon. Ten people were killed and 18 injured. The search for the second suspect is also increasing in Regina, which is around 300 kilometers to the south.
The police announced details of the investigation status on Monday afternoon. Accordingly, the first concrete allegations were raised: three murders and one attempted murder in the younger of the two, one murder and one attempted murder in the older one. Further charges for the other murders are likely.