A number of folks killed, others injured after automobile drives into Vancouver avenue pageant crowd

Vancouver police say a number of folks have been killed and a number of others injured after a automobile drove right into a crowd at a avenue pageant Saturday night.

The incident occurred shortly after 8 p.m. close to East forty first Avenue and Fraser Avenue, the place the Lapu Lapu Day Block Get together was going down.

Police mentioned the driving force is in custody.

In a submit on X, the Vancouver Police Division mentioned extra info can be launched because the investigation unfolds.

Earlier, movies posted on social media confirmed emergency crews on the scene, with a number of folks mendacity on the bottom — some showing injured. 

CBC Information has reached out to Vancouver police for additional particulars.

NDP marketing campaign made look

The NDP had made a marketing campaign cease on the pageant earlier within the day.

In an announcement posted on X, NDP Chief Jagmeet Singh mentioned he was “horrified to study of an incident at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Day celebrations that injured and killed harmless folks.” 

He mentioned his ideas are with the victims, their households and Vancouver’s Filipino group, “who have been coming collectively immediately to have fun resilience.”

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim mentioned in an announcement that he was “shocked and deeply saddened” by what he known as a “horrific incident” on the pageant. 

“Our ideas are with all these affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino group throughout this extremely tough time,” he mentioned.

B.C. Premier David Eby mentioned in a submit to social media platform X that he is “shocked and heartbroken” to listen to in regards to the lives misplaced and people injured on the pageant.

Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre additionally took to X stating that he was “shocked” by the “horrific information” rising from the pageant at Vancouver. 

“My ideas are with the Filipino group and all of the victims focused by this mindless assault. Thanks to the primary responders who’re on the scene as we wait to listen to extra,” he mentioned.

Lapu Lapu Day is known as after an Indigenous resistance fighter within the Philippines who fought towards Spanish colonization within the sixteenth Century.

Friday’s occasion was the second annual avenue celebration of the day in Vancouver, and organizers had mentioned it was a chance to mark “the enduring affect on Filipino values, notably the spirit of bayanihan — the collective group effort.”