A man led a vehicle to a crowd in a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 20 others, announced on Sunday. The vehicle entered the street at 8:14 p.m. Saturday and hit people who attended the Lapu Lapu day festival, the Vancouver police department was injured in a police article. As a car attack, Prime Minister Mark Carney said, who canceled his first campaign event on the last day of the electoral campaign before the vote on Monday. “An investigation is underway to determine how and why this horrible attack occurred. The driver’s SUV front is broken. Insufficient has been detained by passers -by before the arrival of the Vancouver police, 30 years old, said the police. Apprehended by passers -by.Video circulating on social networks shows a young man in a black hooded sweat Safety and surrounded by screaming spectators and the jurant. I would like to offer my greatest condolences. ”In 2018, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto. Eight women and two menets died. Sexually frustrated men, some of whom have drawn attacks against people who have sex. Victims with a pale face lying on the ground or stuck under vehicles. “I saw people running and my daughter was trembling.” Nulada was in the emergency room of Vancouver General Hospital early Sunday morning, trying to find news on her brother, who was under attack and suffered several broken bones. The owner was at the event and heard a car on his engine, then “a loud noise, like a strong blow” which he initially thought was a shot. “We saw people on the crying road, others were, shouting, shouting or even shouting, asking for help. So we tried to go just to check what was really going on until we find bodies on the ground. Others were lifeless, others like, you know, wounded,” said Cruzat. Magtajas Nic described a roaring SUV. I saw a bunch of people pass, going high from the impact of the typing of the car, “said Magtajas, 19. The mayor of Vancouver, Kenneth Sim, said deeply that the city is more possible. Lapu Lapu Day Day,” said Sim. “Our reflections concern all the people affected and with the Philippine community of Vancouver in this incredibly difficult period.” Vancouver honored a national herovancouver, there were more than 38,600 residents of the Philippin heritage in 2021 Lapu-Lapu, a native chief who resisted the Spanish explorers who came to the Philippines in the 16th century. Families. “The Consulate General of the Philippines of Vancouver works with the Canadian authorities to ensure that the incident will make an in-depth investigation and that the victims and their families are supported and consoled,” he said.
A man led a vehicle to a crowd in a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 20 others, announced on Sunday.
The vehicle entered the street at 8:14 p.m. on Saturday and hit people who attended the Lapu Day festival, Vancouver’s police department said in a social media position.
“Nine people were killed and more than 20 were injured in what the Vancouver police described as a car attack that struck,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney, who canceled his first campaign event on the last day of the electoral campaign before the vote on Monday.
“An investigation is underway to determine how and why this horrible attack occurred. The authorities have confirmed that a person is custody and it is believed that they have acted alone. ”
The video of the consequences shows the dead and injured along a narrow street in the south of Vancouver bordered by food trucks. The front of the driver’s SUV is broken.
The suspect was arrested by passers -by before the police arrive
A 30 -year -old Vancouver man was arrested on the scene and the main section of the ministry’s crime supervises the investigation, police said.
“Currently, we are convinced that this incident was not an act of terrorism,” the police service posted on Sunday.
Vancouver’s acting police chief Steve Rai told a press conference that the man was arrested after being initially apprehended by passers -by.
The video circulating on social networks shows a young man in a black hooded sweatshirt with his back against a chain link fence alongside a security guard and surrounded by passers -by by screaming and swallowing him.
“I’m sorry,” said the man, holding his hand at his head.
Rai refused to comment on the video, but said that the person in detention was a “single man” who was “known to the police in certain circumstances”.
Carney said the authorities did not think there is an active threat to Canadians.
“Last night, families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son or a daughter. These families live the nightmare of each family,” said Carney, retalled. “And for them and to the many others injured, to the Canadian Philippine community, and to everyone in Vancouver, I would like to offer my biggest condolences.”
In 2018, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto. Eight women and two men died. Alek Minassian, who was found guilty, told the police that he belonged to an online community of sexually frustrated men, some of whom had drawn attacks against people who have sex.
Witnesses describe how they jumped back
Carayn Nulada said that she had pulled her granddaughter and her grandson from the street and had used her body to protect them from the SUV. She said her daughter had undergone a narrow escape.
“The car struck her arm and she fell, but she got up, to get us, because she is afraid,” said Nulada, who described screaming children and victims with a pale face lying on the ground or stuck under vehicles.
“I saw people running and my daughter was trembling.”
Nulada was in the emergency room of Vancouver General Hospital early Sunday morning, trying to find news on her brother, who was dilapidated in the attack and suffered several broken bones.
The doctors identified it by presenting the family with their wedding ring in a bottle of pills and said that it was stable, but that it would be operated on.
James Cruzat, owner of a Vancouver company, was at the event and heard a car on its engine, then “a loud noise, like a strong blow” that he initially thought was a shot.
“We saw people on the crying road, others were, like running, screaming or even shouting, asking for help. So we tried to go just to check what was really going on until we find bodies on the ground. Others were lifeless, others like, you know, wounded,” said Cruzat.
Nic Magtajas described a roaring SUV through the crowd at high speed.
“I saw a bunch of people pass, getting the impact of the car strike at the top,” said Magtajas, 19.
The mayor of Vancouver, Kenneth Sim, said in an article on social networks that the city would provide more information when possible.
“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrible incident at the Lapu Day day event today,” said Sim. “Our thoughts are with all the people affected and with the Philippine community of Vancouver during this incredibly difficult period.”
The large Philippine population of Vancouver honored a national hero
Vancouver had more than 38,600 inhabitants of the Philippin heritage in 2021, representing 5.9% of the total population of the city, according to Statistics Canada, the agency that leads the national census.
Lapu Day famous Datu Lapu-Lapu, an native chief who resisted the Spanish explorers who came to the Philippines in the 16th century. The organizers of the Vancouver event – which was in its second year – said that it “represents the soul of the indigenous resistance, a powerful force which helped shape the Philippine identity in the face of colonization”.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. published a statement expressing his sympathy with the victims and their families.
“The Consulate General of the Philippines in Vancouver works with the Canadian authorities to ensure that the incident will make an in-depth investigation and that the victims and their families are supported and consoled,” he said.
The country’s Foreign Department said that “we remember the strong Filipino strong community in Canada and pray for their strength and their continuous resilience”.
