Vancouver police safe the scene after a automobile drove right into a crowd on the Lapu Lapu Competition in Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday.
Wealthy Lam/The Canadian Press through AP
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Wealthy Lam/The Canadian Press through AP
VANCOUVER — The motive force of a automobile struck revelers at a road pageant in Canada, killing and injuring an unknown variety of individuals, police mentioned.
The car entered the road the place individuals have been attending a Filipino neighborhood pageant simply after 8 p.m. Friday, the Vancouver Police Division mentioned in a social media publish.
“A variety of individuals have been killed and a number of others are injured after a driver drove right into a crowd,” police mentioned.
The precise variety of lifeless or injured was not instantly out there.
The motive force was taken into custody, police mentioned.
The Lapu Lapu Day pageant was being held in a South Vancouver neighbourhood. Video posted on social media confirmed victims and particles strewn throughout an extended stretch of street, with at the least seven individuals mendacity motionless on the bottom.
A black SUV with a crumpled entrance part could possibly be seen in nonetheless images from the scene.
