SUNDRE– Sundre RCMP are advising the public that there is a heavy police presence Tuesday on Centre Street in Sundre.
"Police are investigating a report of a serious assault. People are asked to avoid the area," police said in a news release issued shortly after 6 p.m.
Two people taken on stretchers from inside the Sundre Hotel cafe on Tuesday afternoon received “traumatic, life-threatening” injuries, Didsbury RCMP Staff Sgt. Stephen Browne said at the scene.
Both were taken away in separate ambulances and one was believed to be later transported from the Sundre hospital by STARS air ambulance.
The patients were an adult male and an adult female.
Speaking outside the hotel, a woman believed to be a worker at the facility, said the parties were in a knife fight in the cafe.
Staff Sgt. Browne declined to say how the parties were injured.
Victims services personnel arrived at the scene at 5:30 p.m.
The entire hotel including the cafe, bar and liquor store were closed.
