Justin Trudeau decries truck attack that targeted Muslim family in Ontario

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is denouncing a pickup truck attack that killed four members of an immigrant Muslim family.

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The victims – two parents, two children and a grandmother – were on an evening walk when the driver of the truck struck them at an intersection in London, Ontario. The sole survivor of the attack was a 9-year-old boy, who was then hospitalized.

In Canada, where immigrants are widely accepted, said anti-Muslim rhetoric is partly to blame for the attack, as are disinformation and extremism.

The 20-year-old suspect, Nathaniel Veltman, was arrested in a parking lot close by. He was facing four counts of first-degree murder.

This attack somehow revealed the growing Islamophobia in Western countries.