One person has died and at least six others injured in a mass stabbing attack in Canada, police say.<\/p>\n
The suspect also died in Thursday’s attack in a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).<\/p>\n
The incident, described by police as a “mass casualty” event, took place in Hollow Water First Nation, about 200km (124 miles) north-east of the city of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Eight people were transported by either air or ambulance to local hospitals, Shared Health, the provincial health authority, told the BBC. They arrived with varying injuries, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Stars air ambulance confirmed that it responded to an emergency on the Hollow Water First Nation on Thursday morning and flew two patients to Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n
Few details on the incident are currently available. The RCMP will hold a news conference at 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT). <\/p>\n
Manitoba RCMP warned Hollow Water First Nation residents on Thursday morning that they should expect a heavy police presence in the community throughout the day.<\/p>\n
It said there was no current risk to public safety.<\/p>\n
“Our sincere condolences to everyone within the community of Hollow Water First Nation and to everyone who has been affected by this senseless act of violence,” the RCMP said.<\/p>\n
The RCMP major crimes unit will the lead the investigation.<\/p>\n
In a letter to residents posted online, the Hollow River chief and council offered their condolences those “affected by this tragedy”. <\/p>\n
The Anishinaabe community has a small population of a few hundred people. <\/p>\n
The attack happened on the third anniversary of a mass stabbing in James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby village of Weldon, in the province of Saskatchewan, in which 11 people were killed and many more injured. <\/p>\n
The suspect in that stabbing died shortly after police arrested him following a three-day manhunt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person has died and at least six others injured in a mass stabbing attack in Canada, police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-114662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}