ONE DEAD, SIX INJURED IN STABBING ATTACK AT CANADIAN LIBRARY

Sun 28 March 2021:

One woman is dead and six other people sustained injuries after being stabbed inside and outside a library in Canada’s North Vancouver, media reported, citing police.

Sgt. Frank Jang of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team said a suspect was in custody. He said the man is in his 20s and has had interactions with police in the past.

Jang said officials didn’t have any information yet about a motive.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — One woman was killed and six other people were injured Saturday when a man went on a stabbing spree in a library in Canada, https://t.co/Ec5SFa8egh

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Woman dead, six hospitalized after ‘multiple’ people stabbed at North #Vancouver library#LynnValley #NorthVancouver #Canada pic.twitter.com/vmtXaPnHai

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One witness, Steve Mossop, said he and his partner stopped in traffic when they saw a bloodied woman who told them she had just been stabbed. They then saw several victims within about 100 meters (yards) of each other, he said.

“There was a man, there was an older woman, there was a younger woman, a mom — a random group of individuals in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mossop said.

“It seemed like he was just running in a direction, whoever was in his path happened to be victimized,″ Mossop said of the attacker.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has extended condolences to the victims, saying that “all Canadians are keeping you in our thoughts and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.”