A woman was fatally stabbed in an Ottawa park in front of her two young children Thursday morning, Ottawa police and other sources said.
In a news release, police said the woman was attacked around 11:26 a.m. near the intersection of Uplands and Paul Anka drives, near the city’s airport.
According to sources, the woman was at Paul Landry Park with her two young children when she was stabbed. She died at the scene, sources told CBC.
Photos from the scene show yellow police tape surrounding an empty stroller on a park path near a children’s playground. Paramedics told CBC the woman’s children were uninjured but were taken to hospital as a precaution.
Police said the male suspect fled in a vehicle and was arrested near exit 66 on Highway 417 in Casselman, about 50 kilometres east of the park.
Police released no further information about either the victim or the suspect.
The investigation is ongoing and witnesses are being interviewed, police said. They’re also in the process of notifying the victim’s family.
Uplands Drive reopened to traffic around 5 p.m. Thursday. The scene is about nine kilometres south of Ottawa’s downtown core.