Police in Canada arrested a man accused of being involved in a series of killings that killed 11 people and shook the country.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police captured a man on Wednesday near the city of SASKATCHEWAN.
CANCELLED: Dangerous Persons Alert issued by Melfort RCMP: Myles Sanderson was located and taken into police custody near Rosthern, SK at approximately 3:30 p.m. today. There is no longer a risk to public safety relating to this investigation. Updates to come. ^km
— RCMP Saskatchewan (@RCMPSK) September 7, 2022
Ten people were killed and more than 20 were injured in a stabbing spree on Labor Day weekend in the James Smith Cree Nation and nearby community of Weldon. Police said that there were wounds that did not seem to be self-destructive.
Guns are more tightly controlled than in the US in a country where mass violence is rare. People in Canada's prairie provinces were told to be on the lookout for the suspects.
Trudeau said that violence has no place in Canada.
Two years ago an individual killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in an episode of gun violence that led to a public inquiry. The bodies of two men suspected of killing three people in northern British Columbia were found with self- inflicted fatal wounds.
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