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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 nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
White supremacists walk through the town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville. [Steve Helber/AP Photo]
Published On 13 Aug 2017

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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.

White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]
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White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
A group of counter-protesters march against white supremacists in Charlottesville. [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
Far-right activists clash with counter-protesters at the rally. [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
Virginia state police inspect the site where a vehicle hit protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing at least one person. [Tasos Katopodis/EPA]
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White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]
White nationalist rally turns deadly in Charlottesville
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]