Woman wants to return to India after vicious attack by strangers in Osborne Village

Felisha Adam · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 25, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 40 minutes ago

A Winnipeg pistillate is recovering successful infirmary aft being brutally attacked by strangers connected her mode location from an evening shift.

CBC is lone identifying the 23-year-old by her archetypal sanction arsenic she fears for her safety.

The onslaught happened connected June 22 astir midnight. Tanpreet had gotten disconnected of her autobus and was walking to her flat successful Osborne Village, conscionable similar she has done for the past 2 years.

"I was astir successful beforehand of my flat crossed the street, and past I conscionable heard, like, moving footsteps.… When I looked … back, they conscionable pushed maine and I was connected the ground."

She says the 2 attackers bushed her and stabbed her aggregate times, successful her back, stomach, legs, and near eye. They past took her phone, recognition cards and IDs.

Tanpreet said she was knocked unconscious and does not cognize however agelong the onslaught lasted, but erstwhile she woke up successful the ambulance, she didn't deliberation she would marque it. 

"I was conscionable thinking, like, I volition die. I can't unrecorded anymore," she said. 

Teen charged

Since then, she's had aggregate surgeries, including 1 to repair the harm to her near eye. 

She said the onslaught has near her traumatized, and she no longer feels harmless successful Winnipeg. She would similar to spell backmost location to India, wherever astir of her family, including her parent and father, live.

A 17-year-old miss has been arrested successful transportation with the attack, constabulary said successful a quality merchandise connected Wednesday. She's been charged with robbery, aggravated battle and 7 counts of failing to comply with a merchandise order.

Bystanders intervened successful the battle earlier the attackers fled, and 911 was called, constabulary said.

Anyone with accusation oregon surveillance footage is asked to interaction investigators astatine 204-986-6219 oregon to nonstop an anonymous extremity to Crime Stoppers astatine 204-786-TIPS oregon online.

"She doesn't merit this," Tanpreet's sister-in-law Ramandeep said. "She came present for a amended aboriginal and not for this."

With Tanpreet's member visiting household successful India, Ramandeep, whom CBC is identifying by lone her archetypal sanction to support Tanpreet's identity, has go a root of support.

While she is trying to stay beardown for Tanpreet, she says the onslaught has near her shaken.

"I can't slumber similar from 2 days.… When I adjacent my eyes, I tin spot … however severely she got stabbed," Ramandeep said.

She wants justness for her sister-in-law, and much done to marque definite the streets of Winnipeg are safe.

"We request accountability and we request enactment truthful nary 1 other has to unrecorded done specified a horrible situation," she said.

For now, she's doing each she tin to assistance Tanpreet recover, hoping to spot her backmost to her mean aforesaid soon, but she expects it volition beryllium a agelong road.