Police have confirmed that the final suspect in a recent mass stabbing in and around a Canadian reserve has died on the run.
Myles Sanderson, 32, was found near the town of Rosthern, in central Saskatchewan province, when officers responded to reports of a stolen vehicle driven by a man with a knife, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. know.
Officers rammed Sanderson’s car off the road and he was taken into custody, but into what a spokeswoman described as “medical pain”.
He was taken to the hospital but died soon after.
Ten people were killed and 18 injured following attacks in and around an indigenous reserve in central Saskatchewan province on Sunday. Ten victims are still being treated at the hospital, three of them in critical condition.
Hundreds of police officers have launched an extensive manhunt against the suspects, Myles and his brother Damien Sanderson, who fled the crime scene.
Damien was found dead in a grassy area of the James Smith Cree Nation on Monday, with injuries that police said were not self-inflicted.
Myles Sanderson, who was described by officers as armed and dangerous, remained indifferent until Wednesday afternoon.
Sunday’s stabbing was one of the deadliest attacks in Canada’s modern history.
Police said some victims appeared to have been targeted intentionally, while others were attacked at random.
Officers did not disclose a possible motive, but a statement from an indigenous group from the province suggested the stabbings could be drug-related.
