Eleven people are dead and dozens were injured after a driver plowed into a crowd at a festival in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday night.
At a press conference on Sunday, authorities warned that the death toll may rise in the coming days. The suspect, a Vancouver resident with a history of mental illness, was known to police. The individual has not yet been identified or formally charged. Officials confirmed the event is not an act of terrorism.
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What appeared to be the vehicle, a crumpled black SUV, was seen stopped in the middle of the street after crashing into food trucks that flanked both sides of a street that had been pedestrianized for what had been, just moments before, a joyous celebration of Filipino culture.
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According to Vancouver police, the crowd, which had gathered for the annual Lapu-Lapu Day block party, captured the driver and turned him over to police.
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The attack occurred on East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street shortly after 8:14 p.m. local time, the Vancouver Police Department said in .
Police did not immediately provide a possible motive.
At a midnight press conference at the scene of the crash, Steve Rai, Vancouver’s interim police chief told reporters a that “a lone suspect, subject male, with one vehicle drove through a crowded community event occurring near here.”
“Going forward, the entire investigative component — sections of the Vancouver Police Department, with support of other areas — will be conducting a full investigation of what occurred here tonight,” Rai said.
Yoseb Vardeh, the co-owner of a food truck that was stationed at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival, , a Canadian news outlet, that he heard an engine revving before a speeding truck drove straight down the middle of a pedestrian-only area.
“I got outside my food truck, I looked down the road and there’s just bodies everywhere,” Vardeh said.
He added that the police acted quickly to cordon off the area and arrest the man. “This is something that happens in the States, not here,” he said.
Deana Lancaster, a spokesperson for Vancouver General Hospital, the region’s top trauma facility, said it was receiving multiple patients from the incident, which she understood to be the Lapu-Lapu Day party.
“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event,” Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said, adding that more information would be forthcoming as soon as it is available.
“Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time,” Sim said.
British Columbia Premier David Eby his team was in contact with Vancouver officials and would provide any needed support.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered condolences and said officials were monitoring the situation.
While addressing Canadians , Carney described the tragic losses "as every family's nightmare." He went on to highlight the resilience and strength of the Filipino-Canadian community.
Carney referenced a Tagalog term that he said "captures the Filipino spirit of community of cooperation and unity."
"And it's this spirit upon which we must draw in this incredibly difficult time," Carney said. "We will comfort the grieving. We will care for each other. We will unite in common purpose."
Jagmeet Singh, the leader of Canada’s New Democrat Party, said that he was “horrified.”
“As we wait to learn more, our thoughts are with the victims and their families — and Vancouver’s Filipino community, who were coming together today to celebrate resilience,” he said.
In 2023, the province of British Columbia officially declared April 27 to be Lapu-Lapu Day, commemorating a battle on the island of Mactan, in what is now the Philippines, on April 27, 1521. Lapu-Lapu was an Indigenous leader who is widely credited, and celebrated, in the Philippines for killing Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer who landed in Mactan while helming a Spanish expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
The islands went on to fall under Spanish colonial rule for nearly 400 years, and Lapu-Lapu is hailed in the Philippines and the global Filipino diaspora as a symbol of resistance to colonialism.
There are nearly 1 million Filipino immigrants and people of Filipino descent in Canada, according to the 2021 census.
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