Vancouver police safe the scene after a automobile drove right into a crowd on the Lapu Lapu Pageant in Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday.
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VANCOUVER — The motive force of a automobile struck revelers at a avenue competition in Canada, killing and injuring an unknown variety of individuals on the occasion celebrating Filipino tradition, police stated.
The automobile entered the road at 8:14 p.m. Saturday the place individuals had been attending the Lapu Lapu Day competition, the Vancouver Police Division stated in a social media put up.
“Quite a few individuals have been killed and a number of others are injured after a driver drove right into a crowd,” police stated. The precise variety of useless or injured was not instantly accessible.
A 30-year-old Vancouver man was arrested on the scene and the division’s Main Crime Part is overseeing the investigation, police stated.
The competition was being held in a South Vancouver neighborhood. Video posted on social media confirmed victims and particles strewn throughout an extended stretch of street, with not less than seven individuals mendacity motionless on the bottom. A black SUV with a crumpled entrance part might be seen in nonetheless images from the scene.
“I’m shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at right this moment’s Lapu Lapu Day occasion,” Vancouver Mayor Kenneth Sim stated in a social media put up, including that town would offer extra data when attainable. “Our ideas are with all these affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino group throughout this extremely tough time.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney and different Canadian political figures posted messages expressing shock on the violence, condolences for victims and assist for the group celebrating its heritage on the competition.
“I provide my deepest condolences to the family members of these killed and injured, to the Filipino Canadian group, and to everybody in Vancouver. We’re all mourning with you,” Carney wrote.
“As we wait to be taught extra, our ideas are with the victims and their households — and Vancouver’s Filipino group, who had been coming collectively right this moment to have a good time resilience,” wrote Jagmeet Singh, chief of the New Democratic Get together, who was on the competition earlier within the day.
“My ideas are with the Filipino group and all of the victims focused by this mindless assault. Thanks to the primary responders who’re on the scene as we wait to listen to extra,” Conservative Get together chief Pierre Poilievre wrote.
David Eby, the premier of British Columbia, the province the place Vancouver is situated, stated he was shocked and heartbroken. “We’re involved with the Metropolis of Vancouver and can present any assist wanted,” Eby wrote.
