Police have charged a 24-year-old man in what they allege was a 'hate-motivated incident'.
Police say they were called to the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre in Mississauga, Ontario early on Saturday morning
One worshipper knocked the axe from the man's hands, and held him down until police arrived, local media reports. "By the time he was spraying, the people in the first row realized something was going on and one of the young men turned around and knocked away the axe before he had a chance to use it," Noorani Sairally told Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail."Before he could inflict harm on any worshippers, several congregants bravely were able to stop him in his tracks,""Our community will never be broken and we refuse to be intimated," he added.
Following initial uncertainty over a possible motive, investigators now say they believe the attack was a "hate-motivated incident."
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