WINNIPEG — A brother and sister are dead and several others, including a Mountie, injured after a mass stabbing Thursday on a Manitoba First Nation.

Police say the woman, 18, was among those stabbed by her brother, 26-year-old Tyrone Simard, in the early morning attack on the Hollow Water First Nation northeast of Winnipeg.

RCMP Supt. Rob Lasson said the attacker fled the community in a stolen vehicle and died in a highway crash with an RCMP officer who was responding to the stabbings.

The officer suffered critical injuries and was taken to hospital but is expected to make a full recovery.

“She stopped a man on a rampage, so on behalf of the province of Manitoba I thank her,” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told a press conference.

Seven others were found injured in two different homes in

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