Quebec University Student Charged After Mosque Rampage
- Terrorist attack left six dead, five seriously injured
- Prime Minister Trudeau condemns ‘senseless’ mosque attack
Quebec Mosque Attack Kills 6
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A Canadian university student has been charged following an assault on a Quebec City mosque that left six people dead and seriously injured five others in one of the worst terrorist attacks in the country’s history.
Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder, said Jean-Pascal Boucher, a spokesman for the provincial government. Bissonnette was a political science student at nearby Laval University and grew up in the Quebec City area, Le Presse reported. Police initially arrested a second man at the scene before releasing him.