Peel Region police are investigating after a man entered a mosque in Mississauga, Ont., west of Toronto, on Saturday morning and attacked the people gathered for Fajr, dawn prayer, with bear spray. They say he was also “brandishing a hatchet.”
Police were called to the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre, near McAdam Road and Matheson Boulevard East, at about 7 a.m.
A man was taken into custody, police say, and an investigation is ongoing. Some people suffered “minor injuries” from the bear spray, according to a Peel police news release.
At about 11 a.m., the mosque’s imam, Ibrahim Hindy, posted on Twitter about the
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