“It’s terrible what happened in our province today,” Blackmore said.
She said that there are 13 crime scenes where dead or injured people were found. She called on the suspects to surrender.
“The attacks in Saskatchewan today are horrific and heartbreaking. I’m thinking of those who have lost a loved one and those who were injured,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday evening. in a statement on social networks.
“We are closely monitoring the situation and urge everyone to follow updates from local authorities. Thank you to all the brave first responders for their efforts on the ground.”
Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were seen in Saskatchewan’s capital, Regina, around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.
“If you are in the Regina area, take precautions and consider sheltering in place. Don’t leave a safe place. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Don’t hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or information to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe offered his condolences on Twitter Sunday night. “There are no words to adequately describe the pain and loss caused by this senseless violence,” he said. “All of Saskatchewan grieves with the victims and their families.”
Weldon resident Diane Shier said she was in her garden Sunday morning when she noticed emergency crews a few blocks away.
Shier said her neighbor, a man who lived with his grandson, was killed. She did not want to identify the victim out of respect for his family.
“I’m very upset because I lost a good neighbor,” she said.
The search for the suspects was conducted as fans descended on Regina for an annual sold-out Labor Day game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of the Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional public safety resources throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium “.
The alert initially issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP around 7 a.m. was extended several hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta after the two suspects remained at large.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was described as five feet seven inches tall and 155 pounds, and Myles Sanderson, 30, as six feet one and 200 pounds. Both have black hair and brown eyes and may drive a black Nissan Rogue.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several locations.
“A call was issued for additional staff to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Mark Oddan, a spokesman for STARS Air Ambulance, said two helicopters were dispatched from Saskatoon and another from Regina.
He said two transported patients to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while the third took a patient to Royal University from a hospital in Melfort, a short distance southeast of Weldon.
Oddan said that due to privacy laws, he could not disclose information about their age, gender or conditions.
With files from POLITICO Canada.
