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Saskatchewan stabber wasn’t on RCMP team’s radar prior to rampage

52 others were unlawfully at large in Saskatchewan day of Myles Sanderson’s killing spree
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People enter the public coroner’s inquest in Melfort, Sask. on Wednesday, January 17, 2024. The province is expected to provide information about how it responded to a mass stabbing on a Saskatchewan First Nation as a coroner’s inquest enters its second week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

The man who went on a stabbing rampage on a Saskatchewan First Nation wasn’t on the radar of the province’s specialized enforcement team ahead of the massacre.

Myles Sanderson was unlawfully at large when he killed 11 people and wounded 17 on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, on Sept. 4, 2022.

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