Police released images of last week of Damien Sanderson, left, and Myles Sanderson. Photo: Supplied / RCMP Saskatchewan
Canadian police have arrested the fugitive suspect of the mass stabbing that killed 10 people.
Myles Sanderson, 30, was taken into custody near Rosthern, Saskatchewan, on Wednesday local time, on the fourth day of an intense manhunt.
His brother, Damien Sanderson, was found dead on Monday in a grassy area on the James Smith Cree Nation.
"There is no longer a risk to public safety relating to this investigation," the RCMP said in a statement.
Eighteen other people were wounded in the rampage, which ranks among the deadliest attacks in Canada's modern history. Ten victims remain in hospital, three of them in a critical condition.
Police said some of the victims appeared to have been targeted, while others were apparently random. The victims included a mother of two, a 77-year-old widower and a first responder.
Authorities have offered no motive for the attacks, which occurred on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve, home to some 3400 people, and the nearby village of Weldon, about 320km north of the provincial capital of Regina.
The arrest came shortly after the RCMP issued an emergency alert reporting that an unnamed individual believed to be armed with a knife was spotted driving a stolen pickup truck in the town of Wakaw, just east of Rosthern.
Police said in that notice they believed the sighting was linked to the manhunt for Sanderson.
Police have said they were investigating whether the younger sibling might have killed his brother and possibly sustained injuries that required medical attention.
Myles Sanderson was briefly believed to have been spotted on Tuesday back in the James Smith Cree Nation, but a search of the reserve that day turned up no sign of the suspect, and police said they determined he was no longer there.
Canada's parole board said on Tuesday that it would review why Myles Sanderson was released early from prison while serving a four-year sentence for several violent crimes.
In February the board said he would "not present an undue risk" and that his release would "contribute to the protection of society" by facilitating his rehabilitation.
Saskatoon police earlier confirmed they had been searching for Myles Sanderson since May, when he stopped meeting with his assigned caseworker and was classified as "unlawfully at large".
Parole documents show Myles Sanderson has a decades-long criminal record, including 59 criminal convictions since he was 18, including assault, threats and robbery.
- Reuters / BBC