University professor and grocer among victims in mosque attack 

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CBC News has identified three of the six men who died in Sunday night’s shooting at a Quebec City mosque as  Khaled Belkacemi, a professor at Laval University, Azzedine Soufiane, the owner of a grocery store and halal butcher shop, and Boubaker Thabti, a Tunisian-born father of two.

Soufiane owned and operated the Boucherie Assalam in Sainte-Foy, less than a kilometre away from the Islamic Cultural Centre where the shooting took place.

Azzedine Soufiane, one of the six people who died in Sunday night’s mosque shooting, owned the Boucherie Assalam in Sainte-Foy, Que. (Radio-Canada)

Belkacemi was a professor of soil and agri-food engineering at the university, also in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood.

Thabti moved to Quebec in 2011. His two children are three and 11 years old.

In addition to the six confirmed fatalities, five others who were injured are still in hospital.

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