Canada's mass killer might die from cocaine overdose: pathologist

OTTAWA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A forensic pathologist told a public coroner's inquest on Tuesday that the man who killed 11 people and injured 17 others in 2022 might die from an acute cocaine overdose, local media reported.

Myles Sanderson stabbed 11 people into death, 10 in his home community of James Smith Cree Nation and another in the nearby village of Weldon, Saskatchewan on Sept. 4, 2022. He died later that day while in police custody. The inquest is expected to rule on Sanderson's cause of death.