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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday denounced the killing of four Muslim family members, run down by the driver of a pick-up truck, as a hate-driven terrorist attack, and urged the nation to stand up against intolerance.
The victims - a husband and wife, their teenage daughter and the child s grandmother - were killed Sunday when the truck mounted a curb and struck them in the city of London, in Canada s central Ontario province.
The couple s nine-year-old son, orphaned in what police said was a planned attack targeting a Muslim family, was recovering in hospital from serious injuries.
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