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A driver plowed a automobile right into a crowd at a avenue competition celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday evening, killing and injuring plenty of folks, officers mentioned.
A few of these attending the competition helped arrest the suspect on the scene. He’s a 30-year-old man from Vancouver, in keeping with a police assertion.
No motive has been given, though police have mentioned they’re “assured” it was not an act of terrorism. Canadian officers are investigating whether or not psychological well being points might have factored into the incident, a legislation enforcement supply briefed on the investigation instructed CNN.
“At roughly 8:14 p.m. on April 26, a person drove into a big crowd of individuals attending the Lapu Lapu Day Pageant close to East forty third Avenue and Fraser Road. A 30-year-old suspect, a Vancouver man, was arrested on the scene,” a police assertion mentioned.
The suspect was identified to police “in sure circumstances,” Vancouver Police interim chief Steve Rai instructed reporters in a press briefing later Sunday.
He declined to provide additional particulars, together with whether or not he had a legal document.
Nevertheless, Rai mentioned that suspect was thought to have operated alone, confirming there was “one suspect, one car.”
Rai wouldn’t give the precise variety of the victims saying it could be “unfair” to provide extra exact figures as households are nonetheless being knowledgeable.
The investigation, led the Vancouver Police Division’s Main Crime Part, is ongoing and police have requested members of the general public to contact them with any details about the incident.
Movies from the occasion organizers on Instagram confirmed vigorous cultural dances and music performances all through the day, with a number of meals vans and market cubicles lining each facet of the road. Many households with younger kids had been seen among the many attendees.
Eyewitnesses who attended the road competition described scenes of chaos.
“It’s one thing you don’t anticipate to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, instructed Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] simply slammed the pedal down and rammed into lots of of individuals. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all of the bowling pins and all of the pins flying up within the air.”
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