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by with Michel Comte in Ottawa / Anne-Sophie THILL Agence France-Presse JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Canada (AFP) — Canadian police on Wednesday arrested the second and final suspect over the stabbing spree that saw 10 people killed and 18 wounded in a remote Indigenous community, two days after the first suspect was found dead. A pickup truck in a ditch surrounded by a dozen police cars pointed to a dramatic end to a four-day manhunt […]
By: Thomas I. Likness (Eagle News Service) (Eagle News) — Ten people are dead and at least 15 have been injured following a series of stabbings in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The dead and injured were found in 13 different locations, RCMP Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told a news conference Sunday. “It is horrific what has happened in our province today,” she said. “There could be more injured.” […]
(Eagle News) – The Philippine Consulate General in Toronto, Canada confirmed reports that a 44-year old Filipina and her daughter had been stabbed to death in a busy part of Toronto by a man whom local media claimed was known to the victims. Consul General Orontes Castro sadly confirmed the news on Wednesday August 31. He said that the consulate would be working to repatriate the remains of the victims, and extended the Philippine government’s […]
Two female employees were stabbed inside New York’s prestigious Museum of Modern Art on Saturday, allegedly by an angry patron, police said, causing the museum to be evacuated. The women were injured “in the back, in the collarbone, in the back of the neck” but are both “going to be ok,” said John Miller, New York police department deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism. The suspect, who had not been arrested as of late Saturday […]
TOKYO, Jan 15, 2022 (AFP) – Three people were stabbed outside the prestigious University of Tokyo ahead of nationwide college entrance exams Saturday, with police saying they had arrested a high-schooler for allegedly carrying out the attack. The victims included an 18-year-old boy, a 17-year-old girl and a 72-year-old man, police said. “We arrested a 17-year-old male student for allegedly slashing in the back (of the three) with the intent to kill,” a Tokyo police […]
by Tolga AKMEN with James PHEBY and Joe JACKSON in London Agence France Presse The fatal stabbing of British MP David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said Saturday, at they investigated the second killing of a UK politician while meeting voters since 2016. The Metropolitan Police said its preliminary findings had revealed “a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism”. Amess, a 69-year-old pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker, was stabbed to death inside a church on Friday […]
by Joe JACKSON, with Phil HAZLEWOOD in London Agence France Presse BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom (AFP) — Detectives in Britain’s second city of Birmingham on Sunday launched a hunt for a knifeman who killed one and critically injured two in a series of random stabbings over several hours. Five others suffered minor injuries in the attacks, which happened at four separate locations in the busy city centre between 12:30 (2330 GMT Saturday) and 2:30 am. […]
by Adrian DENNIS READING, United Kingdom (AFP) — Three people were killed and three seriously injured when an assailant went on a stabbing rampage in a park filled with people relaxing in the southern English city of Reading on Saturday, police said. The Thames Valley Police said they had launched a murder investigation and were not treating the incident as terror-related after making one arrest at the scene. Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the “appalling […]
by Lindsey PARNABY with James PHEBY in London MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Police arrested a man on terror charges Friday after a mass stabbing at a shopping center in Manchester, northwest England, that left five people injured. The man in his 40s was “lunging and attacking people” with a large knife in the Arndale shopping center, Police Chief Russ Jackson said. The attack comes two years after Manchester was rocked by a suicide […]
By Gregory Danel Agence France-Presse PARIS, FRANCE (AFP) — A knife-wielding man working at police headquarters in central Paris went on a rampage Thursday, stabbing and killing four employees before himself being shot dead, officials said. A fifth person who was critically injured was being treated in hospital after what was the deadliest attack on police in France in years. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said that the attacker, a 45-year-old employee from the IT department […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese police on Wednesday searched the home of the man behind a stabbing rampage in the town of Kawasaki a day earlier that killed two people, including a child. The 51-year-old attacker, identified by police as Ryuichi Iwasaki, died after stabbing himself during the rampage, and his motives for the horrifying assault remain unclear. On Wednesday morning, police searched his home, not far from the scene of the morning attack, seizing […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe voiced “strong anger” over what he described as a “harrowing” attack, after a knifeman on Tuesday stabbed two people to death, including a 12-year-old. “It is a very harrowing case. I feel strong anger. I offer my heartfelt condolences to the victims and hope the injured recover quickly,” Abe said in a televised reaction, his first since the attack. © Agence France-Presse
