{"id":20383,"date":"2022-04-17T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20383"},"modified":"2022-04-17T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T07:37:15","slug":"canada-five-injured-in-mosque-shooting-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/17\/canada-five-injured-in-mosque-shooting-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"CANADA: Five injured in mosque shooting in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were injured in a mosque shooting Saturday in the Toronto area of Canada, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>A group of men, who had finished midnight prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, was randomly attacked in a drive-by shooting in the Scarborough district, said Toronto Police Department spokesperson David Rydzik.<\/p>\n<p>At least six shots were fired but it remains unknown how many suspects were involved in the shooting, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are unable to say whether the victims were targeted because of their religious beliefs,\u201d said Rydzik.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nadeem Sheikh, board member of the Scarborough Muslim Association said he is concerned about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>He urged authorities to do their best to bring the perpetrators before authorities and said more steps should be taken to curb gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bWriting by Ahmet Gencturk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five people were injured in a mosque shooting Saturday in the Toronto area of Canada, according to police sources. A group of men, who had finished midnight prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, was randomly attacked in a drive-by shooting in the Scarborough district, said Toronto Police Department spokesperson David Rydzik. At least six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[1953,9807,11111,12309,8553,5865,5968,421,5615,5970,8547,5969,9539,594],"class_list":["post-20383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-canada","tag-gun","tag-injured","tag-men","tag-mosque","tag-muslim","tag-nadeem-sheikh","tag-police","tag-ramadan","tag-scarborough-muslim-association","tag-sheikh","tag-toronto","tag-victims","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}