By Canadian Press

CP NewsAlert: Man in mass stabbing at B.C. library gets life, no parole for 15 years

Aug 31, 2023 | 11:56 AM

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A man who killed a woman and wounded six other people in a mass stabbing at a library in North Vancouver, B.C., has received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 years.

Yannick Bandaogo, 30, pleaded guilty on May 29 to one count of second-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder over the March 2021 attack in and around the public library in Lynn Valley.

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