Ottawa, Sept. 5 -- An 18-year-old woman has died and seven other people have been injured in a mass stabbing at a remote indigenous community in Canada, police said.

The suspect also died in Thursday's attack at a First Nations community in the province of Manitoba, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

The incident took place in Hollow Water First Nation, about 200km north-east of the city of Winnipeg, reports BBC.

Police said the suspect was fleeing the scene when he died in a vehicle collision with an RCMP policewoman, who was critically injured.

The family of one victim said he was awoken in the middle of the night, and was stabbed in the torso.

Investigators said the woman killed was the sister of the suspect, and...