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A 2021 truck attack in Ontario killed four of one Muslim family
In 2021 a man rammed a truck into a Muslim Pakistani Canadian family in London, Ontario, killing four of them.
On 6 June 2021, 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman drove a pickup truck into a family of Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians at an intersection in London, Ontario. Four members of the family were killed and a fifth was wounded.
It became the deadliest mass killing in the city's history. Canadian leaders condemned the attack, and it was described as terrorism by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford.
Why it mattersThe case forced Canada to confront targeted hate violence and how its laws treat such attacks as terrorism.
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