A 32-year-old man is facing charges of second-degree murder after his wife was stabbed to death Monday night in their downtown apartment. Alche Kidane, 34, had only just arrived in Winnipeg in August last year, after she and her husband made their way from Sudan.
An arrest has been made in the weekend beating of the 88-year-old. Police say Daniel Andrew Campbell, 22, is charged with aggravated assault, break and enter, robbery with violence and breach of probation. The victim remains stable in hospital.
No serious injuries after two downtown fires last night. One was an apartment building fire on Graham, the other in the parkade of CityPlace on Donald where a construction worker was taken to hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation. This comes only a day after a woman, her daughter and her two granddaughters were killed by smoke inhalation. A baby girl was the sole survivor of that house fire and is in hospital in critical condition.
A man arrested in a string of break-ins in the Stonewall area managed to escape the town’s RCMP detachment ut has been recaptured. Tuesday night, when the man was allowed to call a lawyer in private, they say he escaped through a garage door. An 18-year-old man is now facing a charge of aiding and abetting his escape.
79 dogs are receiving medical care at the Winnipeg Humane Society after being removed from “substandard breeding facility.” The good news is none of the dogs, so far, have needed to be euthanized, but they were thin, thirsty and covered in feces. Some also had gum disease or teeth problems. The animals had been in a 40 by 70-foot shed, some as many as three to a cage.
An escaped cat kept an Air Canada flight grounded yesterday. Air Canada, Flight 603 from Halifax to Toronto, was delayed for a few hours because a cat escaped from a carrying case that a woman had taken on the plane. Spurway says the cat ran into the cockpit, which is usually open at that time, and then somehow got into the wiring in the panels. It took a couple hours for maintenance crews to locate the cat and check the wiring.
