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Canada mosque: Worshippers stop axe wielding attacker
Source: BBC News
Worshippers at a Canada mosque have confronted and restrained a man who was allegedly wielding an axe and attacked them with bear spray during Saturday morning prayers, police say.
One worshipper knocked the axe from the man's hands, and held him down until police arrived, local media reports.
A 24-year-old man was arrested at the scene in the suburb of Mississauga, and he has since been charged.
Some congregants had minor injures from the bear spray, the mosque's imam said.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60810468
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Canada mosque: Worshippers stop axe wielding attacker (Original Post)
discocrisco01
Mar 2022
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James48
(4,416 posts)1. What the actual F?
An axe?
bearsfootball516
(6,369 posts)2. Glad it was ONLY an axe.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)3. Need a name for this degenerate
No doubt he was either at the trucker convoy, or a supporter thereof.
Lasher
(27,497 posts)7. Mohammad Moiz Omar, 24
mn9driver
(4,412 posts)4. If this lunatic had lived south of the border, he would have had much more lethal weapons.
Glad that it seems no one was seriously injured.
bucolic_frolic
(42,652 posts)5. See? An axe doesn't protect the assailant as well as a gun would
Guns make us safer!
Aristus
(66,075 posts)6. The body count in these things is always a lot lower
when theres no gun involved.