Posted on 09/04/2025 1:35:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
One person has died and at least six others have been injured in a mass stabbing attack that took place at a remote indigenous community in Canada, police say.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Few details on the incident are currently available. The RCMP will hold a news conference at 14:00 local time (19:00 GMT).
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.
It said there was no current risk to public safety.
"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.
The RCMP major crimes unit will the lead the investigation.
In a letter to residents posted online, the Hollow River chief and council offered their condolences those "affected by this tragedy".
The Anishinaabe community has a small population of a few hundred people.
One of those injured in the attack was identified by family members as Michael Raven, according to CBC News.
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This’ll go in the memory hole at lightning speed.
A mass stabbing event. Does that mean there was an active stabber?
Another casualty of global warming... In the olden days when there was snow in the Artic... They would put the old people on a loose piece of floating ice and they would send them off alone to starve or be eaten by a polar bear... No ice... And now they have to stab them instead.
........calling for immediate knife control....!!
fire water involved?
Perhaps they smokum peace pipe.
And how did the police finally take down the maniac? Bet it wasn’t with a knife.
“he was stabbed in the lung by someone who broke into his home and attacked him in his sleep”
So this didn’t happen at some sort of get-together. Sounds like a madman did it.
“One person has died and at least six others have been injured in a mass stabbing attack”. Those darn assault knives did it again.
Any common denominators with other mass stabbings around the world?
Gotta go with the floe....
Some of these remote communities get pretty tightly wound up.
Alcohol is usually involved.
Tampon Tim demands tighter restrictions on knives!
Canadians shouldn’t worry I don’t think it will negatively affect its chances of statehood.
Ban knives in Canaduh! They can get by with plastic sporks.
They were south of Inuit country. Close to Lakota country.
The suspect, a 26-year-old resident of the community (his 18-year old sister is the deceased victim and his father is in serious condition in hospital expected to survive) was killed in a MVA with responding RCMP cruiser (the officer was injured and is also in serious condition in hospital).
The suspect was fleeing southbound from the isolated community on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg, and the cruiser was travelling northbound to respond to 911 calls from the community.
Apparently this is the third anniversary of the 10-death rampage (also mass stabbings) on an other reservation in central Saskatchewan.
(source for the above is CTV news that I was just viewing)
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