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17-Year-Old Arrested After Indian Woman Stabbed and Robbed in Winnipeg

The teenager faces charges including aggravated assault, robbery, multiple release order breaches.

Tanpreet Kaur in a hospital in Winnipeg, Canada.

Overview

  • Tanpreet Kaur, a 23-year-old Indian woman from Faridkot, was ambushed near her Winnipeg apartment shortly after midnight on June 23 as she returned from work.
  • The attackers stabbed her in the abdomen and waist and inflicted cuts on her left eyelid and arm before seizing her phone and cards.
  • During the assault she wrested the knife from her attacker but the group fled after bystanders intervened and called 911.
  • Winnipeg police have detained a 17-year-old girl who now faces charges of aggravated assault, robbery and multiple breaches of a release order.
  • Kaur remains in critical condition at a local hospital and has undergone two surgeries since the attack.