A series of stabbings in two communities in Saskatchewan, Canada, left 10 people dead and 15 injured, authorities said on Sunday. Police are looking for two suspects.

Police said the stabbings occurred at multiple locations in James Smith Kerry Country and Weldon Village in northeast Saskatoon.

RCMP Saskatchewan Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said some of the victims appeared to be targeted by the suspects, but others appeared to be random attacks. She couldn’t provide a motive.

“What’s happening in our province today is appalling,” Blackmore said.

She said the dead or injured were found at 13 crime scenes.

Canadian media reported that a Weldon resident said she was in her garden when she noticed first responders a few blocks away.

Hill said her neighbor, a man who lived with her grandson, was killed. Out of respect for her family, she did not want to identify the victim.

“I’m very sad because I lost a good neighbor,” she told Canadian media.

Tracy Marion, manager of the James Smith Community Convenience Store and Gas Station, told the Toronto Sun that she, like many in the province, was woken up by a siren on her smartphone around 7 a.m.

“I fell asleep and I just woke up hearing all this news,” she said.

Since then, she said she has seen the usual calm of Indigenous peoples giving way to the sound of a large number of police and aerial helicopters on the ground, but access to and from the community remains open.

“There’s so much going on that no one’s thinking about it,” the Toronto Sun reported.

The suspects were searched as fans descended on Regina for the annual Labour Day game between the Canadian Rugby League’s Saskatchewan Cavalry and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Regina Police Department said in a news release that, with the help of Mounties, it is working on multiple fronts to find and apprehend suspects and “deploys additional resources for public safety across the city, including football at Mosaic Stadium. race”.

Early indications were that the victims might have been attacked randomly, but police did not offer a possible motive.

The hunt for the suspect came as fans flocked to Regina for the annual Labour Day game between the Canadian Rugby League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

The Regina Police Department said in a news release that, with the help of Mounties, it is finding and apprehending suspects on multiple fronts and “deploying additional resources for public safety across the city, including a football game at Mosaic Stadium. “.

The alert, first issued by Melfort Saskatchewan RCMP at around 7 a.m., was extended to Manitoba and Alberta hours later as two suspects remain at large.

Damian Sanderson, 31, is 5-foot-7 and 155 pounds, and Miles Sanderson, 30, is 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds. Both had black hair and brown eyes and probably drove a black Nissan Rogue.

The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients are being treated at multiple locations.

“A call for additional staffing has been made to deal with the high number of casualties,” Anne Linemann, a spokeswoman for the authority, said in an email.

Two helicopters were dispatched from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and another from Regina, STARS Air Ambulance spokesman Mark Ordan said.

Two took patients to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while a third took a patient from a hospital in Melford, not far southeast of Weldon, to Royal University, he said.

Odan said he could not reveal information about their age, gender or condition because of privacy laws.