Nicholas Nwonye, a 46-year-old Nigerian, has been stabbed to death in Canada, in an attack described by the police as “random and unprovoked.”

According to Calgary Herald, a Canadian newspaper, the father of three was on his way home when the “deadly” attack took place.

The incident occurred on the westbound platform of the City Hall LRT station in downtown Calgary

He was reportedly stabbed in the chest and abdomened “by a man he had never met”.

He was said to have recently moved to Canada with his wife and three children from Nigeria, and was only four weeks into his nursing programme.

Friends described the deceased as “a deeply spiritual man whose faith formed a large part of his life.”

“He was just such a treat to have there,” Rhonda Hersak, an instructor at Bow Valley College, where Nwonye was enrolled in the school’s practical nursing programme, was quoted to have said.

“He had an impact. He had a really big impact in the classroom. He will be missed in the classroom. I know this for a fact,” he said