Calls for action to tackle Islamophobia in Canada after four killed

Nafisa Azima and her daughter Seena Safdari attend a memorial at the location where a family of five was hit by a driver, in London, Ontario (Brett Gundlock/AP)

A driver ploughed a pick-up lorry into a family of five, killing four of them and seriously injuring the other in a deliberate attack that targeted the victims because they were Muslims, Canadian police said.

Authorities said a young man was arrested in the car park of a nearby shopping centre after the incident on Sunday night in the Ontario city of London.