Racial protest and counter-protest turned deadly in Virginia USA.

Candles at a vigil, Charlottesville, Virginia. Source: AAP

A woman has died and 19 others injured when 20 year-old James Alex Fields Junior allegedly drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville Virginia. The counter-protest was against a white supremacist group protesting the removal of the statue of a Confederate general in the city. US officials have opened a civil rights investigation into the car attack.

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