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Visitation today for Renuka Amarasingha, 45, victim of Toronto van attack
Original Publication Date: May 6, 2018 9:56AM
Publication Updated: April 23, 2025 11:32AM
TORONTO – A visitation will be held north of Toronto today for Renuka Amarasingha, one of 10 people killed in last month's deadly van attack in Toronto.
Amarasingha, 45, was a member of Toronto's Sri Lankan community and a single mother of a seven-year-old boy.
The Toronto District School Board said she had worked as a nutrition services staff member since 2015, and had just finished her first day of work at a school close to the site of the attack on the day she died.
A monk at the Buddhist temple where Amarasingha regularly took her son said she baked cookies every week to bring to Sunday school students.
Funerals have already been held for several of the other victims. A funeral for Amarasingha is set for tomorrow morning.
Alek Minassian has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 counts of attempted murder in the rampage.
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