Exploding package kills disabled Alberta woman: RCMP
Posted Nov 26, 2011 08:45:50 PM.
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INNISFAIL, Alta. (NEWS1130) – Police confirm a blast that killed a disabled woman in a central Alberta town was likely caused by a package that was delivered to her home.
RCMP Sgt. Patrick Webb says all indications point to the package as the source of Friday’s explosion at a townhouse complex in Innisfail, 120 km north of Calgary.
Neighbours and members of the victim’s church have identified the dead woman as Vick Shachtay, a 23-year-old mother who had been left paralyzed by a car crash – but investigators are not sure if she was the intended victim.
A second woman, Shachtay’s aide, was also in the apartment at the time of the explosion but was not injured.
Shachtay’s six-year-old daughter was reportedly in school at the time.
Webb says dozens of investigators, including explosives experts from Edmonton and Ottawa, are at the scene and will likely remain there for days.
