10 people were killed and 15 injured in a string of stabbings that occurred in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, according to authorities on Sunday. Two suspects are being sought by police.

According to police, there were multiple stabbings on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the northeast Saskatoon town of Weldon.

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Some of the victims, according to Rhonda Blackmore, Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP Saskatchewan, appear to have been targeted by the accused, while other victims appear to have been attacked randomly. She was unable to cite a motive.

Where is Saskatchewan?

The middle of the three prairie provinces in Western Canada is the prairie and boreal province of Saskatchewan. It shares borders with Alberta on the west, the Northwest Territories on the north, Manitoba on the east, Nunavut on the northeast, and Montana and North Dakota on the south.

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Only Saskatchewan and Alberta are Canadian provinces without coastlines. The population of Saskatchewan was predicted to be 1,186,308 as of Q2 2022. The 651,900 square kilometer province of Saskatchewan has over 10% freshwater, the majority of which is found in the 100,000 lakes, rivers, and reservoirs that make up the province.

Due to Saskatchewan’s continental climate and lack of nearby regulating bodies of water, the province experiences harsh winters. Summers in the south are quite warm or hot. Even in the south during really cold spells, temperatures below 45 °C are possible in the winter.

The southern grassland half of the province has the majority of the population, whereas the northern boreal half is predominantly forested and lightly populated. Saskatoon, the province’s largest city, and Regina, the provincial capital, are home to about half of the total population.

Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current, North Battleford, Melfort, and the border city of Lloydminster are among the other major cities (partially within Alberta). With 82.4% of Saskatchewan residents using it as their first language, English is the province’s official language.

Many indigenous groups have lived in Saskatchewan for thousands of years. The region was originally discovered by Europeans in 1690, and they began to settle there in 1774. In 1905, it was separated from the huge North-West Territories, which up until that point had included the majority of the Canadian Prairies.

With the election of North America’s first social-democratic government in 1944, the province rose to prominence as a bastion of Canadian social democracy at the beginning of the 20th century. Agriculture, mining, and energy are the province’s main economic drivers.