MONTREAL: A driver killed a minimum of 9 individuals when he plowed a car via a crowd at a Filipino cultural celebration in Vancouver, police within the Canadian metropolis stated on Sunday (Apr 27).
Authorities stated the incident occurred shortly after 8pm on Saturday (8am Sunday, Singapore time) in Vancouver’s Sundown on Fraser neighbourhood as members of the Filipino group gathered to have fun Lapu Lapu Day.
The competition, which commemorates a Filipino anti-colonial chief from the sixteenth century, falls this 12 months on the weekend earlier than Canada’s election.
“We will verify 9 individuals have died after a person drove via a crowd eventually evening’s Lapu Lapu Competition,” Vancouver police stated on X.
Police stated earlier they’d arrested a 30-year-old native man who was a “lone suspect” recognized to them.
“Presently, we’re assured that this incident was not an act of terrorism,” Vancouver police stated on X early on Sunday morning.
