Several people died and multiple more were injured This Saturday in Vancouver, after a driver rammed a crowd during a Filipino festival in the city of the Canadian west, local authorities reported. The driver was arrested and is in custody, as confirmed by the police in a publication in the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The tragic incident occurred shortly after 8:00 pm (local time) – 3:00 am GMT – at the intersection of East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Day Day Block Party community party. The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, expressed his dismay through X: “I am devastated to find out about the horrible events that occurred tonight at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver.”
Similar comments were shared on social networks by the mayor of Vancouver, Ken Sim, and British Columbia Prime Minister David Eby. Witnesses in the place narrated scenes of chaos and horror. An assistant told CTV News that he saw a black vehicle driving erratically In the immediate vicinity of the festival just before the outrage.
According to the Vancouver Sun newspaperthousands of people were in the area At the time of the attack. “I didn’t see the driver, I just heard the engine accelerating,” Vardeh, co -owner of the Bao Buns food truck, in statements to Postmedia, said between tears. “I left my food truck, looked towards the street and there were bodies everywhere,” he said in a broken voice. The authorities continue to investigate the reasons behind this tragic event.
