Charlottesville mayor says at least one dead and dozens injured in car ramming that hit counter-protesters.
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Charlottesville ‘Unite the Right’ rally turns deadly
At least one person killed and several more injured when a man drove a car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters.
![White supremacists walk through the town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville. [Steve Helber/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cf7abdb2f96f4cf1bc17fe5e6868879c_8.jpeg?resize=1170%2C780)
13 Aug 2017
A gathering of hundreds of white nationalists in Virginia took a deadly turn when a car ploughed into a group of counter-protesters and killed at least one person.
The state’s governor blamed neo-Nazis for sparking the unrest on Saturday in the college town of Charlottesville, where rival groups fought pitched battles using rocks and pepper spray after far-right protesters converged to demonstrate against a plan to remove a statue of a Confederate war hero.
The violence is the latest clash between white supremacists – some of whom have claimed allegiance to Donald Trump – and the US president’s opponents since his January inauguration.
![Colleen Cook, a teacher, said she sent her black son out of town for the weekend. 'This isn't how he should have to grow up,' she said. [Sarah Rankin/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/b7f65481811f412da07d3213c04f728a_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C878)
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![A group of counter-protesters march against white supremacists in Charlottesville. [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8e7db20738be449aa39c19c90217002b_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
![Far-right activists clash with counter-protesters at the rally. [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/a2eacfeaf7014583b5b69e269fffc0d6_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C814)
![A counter-demonstrator uses a lighted spray can against a white supremacist demonstrator at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville. [Steve Helbe/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/e6a5baeddb2042b2a81aa5d5d041dc8e_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C726)
![Virginia State Police use pepper spray as they move in to clear a clash between white supremacists and a group of anti-fascist protesters. [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f95a38395eb5428ba7c37eea60b2f73c_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C856)
![Virginia state police inspect the site where a vehicle hit protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing at least one person. [Tasos Katopodis/EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/c97528f301b246caa502117575590bf1_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
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![Rescue personnel help an injured woman after a man drove a car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters in Charlottesville. [Steve Helber/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/f0122d2194ff4f8896cf1ac37ce8b649_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C614)
![Zecharia Hayes, left, comforts his friend Joseph Culver as the two Virginia men kneel at a late-night vigil for the victims of a car that ploughed into counter-protesters [Jim Bourg/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3eb9bcf5d28b49b08907eee3c5e1f3b9_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C814)
![Protesters marched in Oakland to decry racism in the wake of deadly violence that erupted at a white supremacist demonstration in Virginia. [Noah Berger/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/8d001ec935c247eeafec0ece4b6c51cb_8.jpeg?fit=1170%2C780)
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