Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the mass stabbing in Canada, died on Wednesday after going into “medical distress” after his arrest, according to Rhonda Blackmore, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner.
Sanderson’s death means that both suspects in the attack that which left 10 people dead in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are now dead. Sanderson’s brother Damien was found dead a day after the attacks with injuries that were not believed to be self-inflicted, police said.
Both brothers were wanted in connection with the murder of 10 people on Sunday, with an 18 other people wounded in a rare mass stabbing incident in Canada.
Canada’s Global News agency reported that Myles Sanderson surrendered to the police and was taken away alive in an ambulance after a highway pursuit in which police rammed his vehicle off the road. Global news said he died shortly after the incident for alleged self-inflicted wounds.
Blackmore said Sanderson “went into medical distress” shortly after he was detained. Emergency personnel on the scene attended to him as he was taken to hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries and was declared dead.
Damien Sanderson was found slain on Monday in a grassy area of the James Smith Cree Nation. Police were investigating whether Myles might have killed his brother, and that he may have sustained an injury requiring medical attention.
Sanderson’s death comes three days after 10 people were killed in a mass stabbing incident, with an additional 18 people reported injured. The victims ages ranged from 23 to 78 years, authorities said.
Source: The South African, CNN, BBC News, Daily Maverick, Reuters, image from Twitter: CBS News
