Car drives on a crowd at Street Festival Vancouver, several dead
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In the Canadian city of Vancouver, an unknown number of people died on Saturday after a car on a crowd was run into a street festival. The local police report this on X. Several people were also injured. The incident took place around 8 p.m. local time (5 p.m. Dutch time) at an event of the Filipino community of Vancouver.
The driver of the car has been arrested. According to Canadian media There are images that can be seen how emergency services hurry to the location of the incident. On those images, several people, possibly injured, lie on the ground.
The Prime Minister of the Canadian province of British Columbia reacts shocked to the number of deaths and injured at the so -called Lapu Lapu Festival. The mayor of Vancouver has also responded, he speaks of a ‘horrible incident’.
Earlier in the evening the leader of the Canadian political party NDP, Jagmeet Singh, was at the event’s event campaign. National elections will take place in Canada on Monday. « My thoughts are with the victims and their families, and with the Filipino community that had gathered to celebrate her resilience, » says Singh after the incident on X.
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