WINNIPEG – Ensuring First Nations communities have cellular coverage would help responses to emergencies such as the mass stabbing on Hollow Water First Nation, a Manitoba grand chief said Monday.

“That should just be a no-brainer. We have to have connection to emergency services,” Grand Chief Jerry Daniels said in an interview.

An 18-year-old woman was killed and several others were hospitalized last Thursday after a series of stabbings on the reserve.

The suspect — Tyrone Simard, 26 — fatally stabbed his 18-year-old sister, wounded seven others, and later died after driving a stolen vehicle and colliding with an RCMP officer responding to the tragedy, RCMP have said.

Hollow Water is not a remote community. It is about 200 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg and connected by road. But it

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