Multi-faith marches, vigils held in response to London attack

Show of support in response to killing of 4 members of Afzaal family in attack police say was hate-based

A ‘multi-faith march to end hatred’ wound through London, Ont., today, beginning at the site where four members of a Muslim family were targeted and killed in an attack on Sunday. 2:41

(CBC News) A few thousand people marched in London, Ont., on Friday night in a multi-faith show of support and solidarity in response to a June 6 attack that killed four members of a Muslim family. 

Starting at 7 p.m. ET, people began to gather near the site of the fatal hit and run in northwest London that killed four members of the Afzaal family. 

From there, marchers began to walk together along a seven-kilometre route from the crash site on Hyde Park and South Carriage Roads to the London Muslim Mosque on Oxford Street. The march was to be followed by a moment of silence at 8:40 p.m., the same time as the attack on Sunday. 

Madiha Salman, 44, her husband, Salman Afzaal, 46, their 15-year-old daughter, Yumna Afzaal, and Salman’s 74-year-old mother, Talat Afzaal, died after they were run down by a pickup truck June 6 while on one of their regular evening walks. The lone survivor is nine-year-old Fayez.