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title: "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Calls The killing of a Muslim Family a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d"
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updated: "2021-06-09"
description: "According to the London police, the suspect targeted a Muslim family and deliberately struck the victims with his truck on the sidewalk. On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls the k\u2026"
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# Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Calls The killing of a Muslim Family a “terrorist attack”

Source: https://theislamicinformation.com/news/justin-trudeau-calls-the-killing-of-a-muslim-family-a-terrorist-attack/
Updated: 2021-06-09

According to the London police, the suspect [targeted a Muslim family](https://theislamicinformation.com/muslim-family-killed-truck-hit-and-run-in-canada/) and deliberately struck the victims with his truck on the sidewalk.

On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls the killing of a Muslim family, which resulted in 4 members died, by a man driving his black truck as a terrorist attack.

Trudeau was giving a speech at House of Common saying, “This Killing was no accident. This was a terrorist attack, motivated by hatred, in the heart of one of our communities.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-AGC33rht0

The victims killed in this attack are the husband, identified as Salman Afzaal, age 46 and the wife, Madiha Salman, age 44. Their 15-year-old daughter named Yumna Salman, and a 74-year-old woman, who is the man’s mother, while their nine-year-old son survived.

“We all hope the little boy can recover from his injuries quickly, even though we know he will live a long time with sadness, incomprehension and anger caused by this cowardly Islamophobic attack,” Trudeau added.

The suspect on Monday had deliberately attacked a Muslim Family. Motivated by hatred, he mounted the curb and struck the family.

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1402451193784324101

Shortly after the attack, police arrested a 20-year-old suspect. He has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Meanwhile, several leaders from the Muslim community have called the court and asked to consider this horrific attack as a terrorist attack and an act of hate.

Detective Superintendent Paul Waight said that the suspect, identified as[Nathaniel Veltman](https://theislamicinformation.com/nathaniel-veltman-killed-muslim-family-in-canada/), was seen wearing a vest like a “body armour,” got arrested at a mall seven kilometres/ four miles from the intersection where the attack happened.

Painful memories were brought back by this episode. In January 2017, six people were killed in a mass shooting in [Quebec City Mosque](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting). A driving rampage resulted in ten people dead in Toronto in April 2018.