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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — A man drove a conveyance into a crowd astatine a Filipino practice show successful the Canadian metropolis of Vancouver, sidesplitting astatine slightest 9 group and injuring much than 20 others, authorities said Sunday.
The conveyance entered nan thoroughfare astatine 8:14 p.m. connected Saturday and struck group attending nan Lapu Lapu Day festival, nan Vancouver Police Department said successful a societal media post.
“Nine group were killed and much than 20 were injured successful what nan Vancouver constabulary are describing arsenic a car ramming attack,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney, who canceled his first run arena connected nan last time of nan predetermination run up of Monday’s vote.
“An investigation is ongoing to find really and why this horrific onslaught occurred. Authorities person confirmed 1 personification is custody and it is believed they acted alone.”
Video of nan aftermath shows nan dormant and injured on a constrictive thoroughfare successful South Vancouver lined by nutrient trucks. The beforehand of nan driver’s SUV is smashed in.
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Suspect was detained by bystanders earlier nan constabulary arrived
A 30-year-old Vancouver man was arrested astatine nan segment and nan department’s Major Crime Section is overseeing nan investigation, constabulary said.
“At this time, we are assured that this incident was not an enactment of terrorism,” nan constabulary section posted early Sunday.
Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai told a news convention that nan man was arrested aft initially being apprehended by bystanders.
Video circulating connected societal media shows a young man successful a achromatic hoodie pinch his backmost against a chain-link fence, alongside a information defender and surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing astatine him.
“I’m sorry,” nan man says, holding his manus to his head.
Rai declined to remark connected nan video, but said nan personification successful custody was a “lone male” who was “known to constabulary successful definite circumstances.”
Carney said authorities do not judge location is immoderate progressive threat to Canadians.
“Last nighttime families mislaid a sister, a brother, a mother, father, boy aliases a daughter. Those families are surviving each family’s nightmare,” Carney said, fighting backmost tears. “And to them and to nan galore others who were injured, to nan Filipino Canadian community, and to everyone successful Vancouver, I would for illustration to connection my deepest condolences.”
In 2018, a man utilized a van to kill 10 pedestrians successful Toronto. Eight women and 2 men died. Alek Minassian, who was recovered guilty, told constabulary that he belonged to an online organization of sexually disappointment men, immoderate of whom person plotted attacks connected group who person sex.
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Witnesses picture really they leaped retired of nan way
Carayn Nulada said that she pulled her granddaughter and grandson disconnected nan thoroughfare and utilized her assemblage to shield them from nan SUV. She said that her girl suffered a constrictive escape.
“The car deed her limb and she fell down, but she sewage up, looking for us, because she is scared,” said Nulada, who described children screaming, and pale-faced victims lying connected nan crushed aliases wedged nether vehicles.
“I saw group moving and my girl was shaking.”
Nulada was successful Vancouver General Hospital’s emergency room early Sunday morning, trying to find news astir her brother, who was tally down successful nan onslaught and suffered aggregate surgery bones.
Doctors identified him by presenting nan family pinch his wedding ringing successful a pill vessel and said that he was stable, but would beryllium facing surgery.
James Cruzat, a Vancouver business owner, was astatine nan arena and heard a car rev its motor and past “a large noise, for illustration a large bang” that he initially thought mightiness beryllium a gunshot.
“We saw group connected nan roadworthy crying, others were for illustration running, shouting, aliases moreover screaming, asking for help. So we tried to spell location conscionable to cheque what was really really happening until we recovered immoderate bodies connected nan ground. Others were lifeless, others like, you know, injured,” Cruzat said.
Nic Magtajas described an SUV roaring done nan crowd astatine precocious speed.
“I saw a bunch of group spell over, spell precocious up from nan effect of hitting nan car,” said Magtajas, 19.
Vancouver Mayor Kenneth Sim said successful a societal media station that nan metropolis would supply much accusation erstwhile possible.
“I americium shocked and profoundly saddened by nan horrific incident astatine today’s Lapu Lapu Day event,” Sim said. “Our thoughts are pinch each those affected and pinch Vancouver’s Filipino organization during this incredibly difficult time.”
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Vancouver’s ample Filipino organization was honoring a nationalist hero
Vancouver had much than 38,600 residents of Filipino practice successful 2021, representing 5.9% of nan city’s full population, according to Statistics Canada, nan agency that conducts nan nationalist census.
Lapu Lapu Day celebrates Datu Lapu-Lapu, an Indigenous chieftain who stood up to Spanish explorers who came to nan Philippines successful nan 16th century. The organizers of nan Vancouver arena — which was successful its 2nd twelvemonth — said that he “represents nan psyche of autochthonal resistance, a powerful unit that helped style nan Filipino personality successful nan look of colonization.”
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. issued a connection expressing sympathy pinch nan victims and their families.
“The Philippine Consulate General successful Vancouver is moving pinch Canadian authorities to guarantee that nan incident will beryllium thoroughly investigated, and that nan victims and their families are supported and consoled,” he said.
The country’s Department of Foreign Affairs said that “we retrieve nan 1 cardinal beardown Filipino organization successful Canada and believe for their continued spot and resilience.”
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