A driver plowed right into a road competition honoring Canada’s Filipino inhabitants in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday night, killing “a variety of individuals,” in accordance with the native police.
The police stated they’d taken one suspect into custody: the motive force, a 30-year-old man from Vancouver. In a information convention in a single day, native officers didn’t specify the variety of fatalities and injured, saying solely that they have been a number of.
Additionally they didn’t deal with a attainable motive, however stated the motive force had already been recognized to the police. Members of the gang had subdued the person earlier than the police acquired to the scene.
Folks have been out celebrating the Lapu Lapu Day competition within the southern a part of the town when the motive force went into the gang shortly after 8 p.m., the Vancouver Police Division stated on social media.
Video from the native information media confirmed ambulances and police vehicles lining the roads close to the competition, with emergency medical staff tending to individuals on the bottom.
Vancouver’s mayor, Ken Sim, stated he was “shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident.”
A spokeswoman for the Vancouver Normal Hospital stated they’d acquired a number of sufferers who have been injured on the competition.
In a social media publish, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada stated he was “devastated to listen to concerning the horrific occasions on the Lapu Lapu competition in Vancouver earlier this night.”
“I provide my deepest condolences to the family members of these killed and injured, to the Filipino Canadian group, and to everybody in Vancouver,” he stated. “We’re all mourning with you.”
Lapu Lapu Day was formally declared on April 27, 2023, by the province of British Columbia as a testomony to the legacy of Datu Lapu-Lapu, a chieftain from Mactan, Philippines, who is taken into account a nationwide hero for rising up in opposition to Spanish colonizers within the early 1500s. Authorities stated that as much as 100,000 individuals had attended the competition on Saturday.
There are practically 1,000,000 Filipino immigrants and other people of Filipino descent dwelling in Canada, in accordance with the federal government. The province of British Columbia is house to almost a fifth of that quantity.
