MONTREAL: A number of individuals have been killed after a driver plowed right into a crowd at a road pageant on Saturday (Apr 26) within the Canadian metropolis of Vancouver, native police stated.
Authorities stated the incident occurred shortly after 8pm on Saturday (Sunday, 8am, Singapore time) in Vancouver’s Sundown on Fraser neighbourhood as members of the Filipino neighborhood gathered to have a good time Lapu Lapu Day.
The pageant, which commemorates a Filipino anti-colonial chief from the sixteenth century, falls this 12 months on the weekend earlier than Canada’s election.
Prime Minister Mark Carney stated in a put up on social media platform X that he was “devastated” by the “horrific occasions”.
“I supply my deepest condolences to the family members of these killed and injured, to the Filipino Canadian neighborhood, and to everybody in Vancouver,” he stated.
“We’re all mourning with you.”
In line with Vancouver police, “various individuals have been killed and a number of others are injured.”
“The driving force is in custody,” they stated on X.
Images revealed by Canadian broadcaster CBC confirmed emergency crews on the scene in addition to massive crowds on the block occasion earlier on Saturday.
Competition safety guard Jen Idaba-Castaneto informed native information website Vancouver Is Superior that she noticed “our bodies in all places”.
“You do not know who to assist, right here or there. It is so stunning,” she stated.
British Columbia premier David Eby stated he was “shocked & heartbroken” by the information, whereas metropolis mayor Ken Sim stated “our ideas are with all these affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino neighborhood throughout this extremely troublesome time”.
“Our ideas are with the victims and their households – and Vancouver’s Filipino neighborhood,” Jagmeet Singh, chief of the left-wing New Democratic Occasion stated on X.
