Muslim Family Killed In Canadian Hate Attack

Tuesday, 8 June 2021 07:10

By Gareth Farrell

A 20-year-old Canadian man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one of attempted murder after driving his pickup truck into a Muslim family

Two women, aged 74 and 44, a 46-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl were killed on Sunday night when Nathaniel Veltman ploughed his black pickup truck into the group of pedestrians in the city of London in Ontario.
The lone survivor, a nine-year-old boy, remains in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Police have described it as a pre-meditated attack

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