Multiple people have been killed and many others wounded after a car rammed into a crowd at a Vancouver street festival on Saturday.
The apparent attack took place at around 8pm local time on Saturday, when members of the local Filipino community were holding a block party to celebrate the Filipino national hero Lapu Lapu. Thousands of people were in attendance, with dozens of food trucks.
Images of the scene show a black SUV with a crumpled hood and extensive damage to its engine. Video footage posted to social media shows a trail of bodies and paramedics and police attending the scene.
One witness who spoke to the media said he saw the black vehicle being driven erratically before the attack.
“I didn’t get to see the driver, all I heard was an engine rev,” Yoseb Vardeh, who owns a food truck, said in an interview with Postmedia.
“I got outside my food truck, I looked down the road and there’s just bodies everywhere. He went through the whole block, he went straight down the middle.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney said he was “devastated” to hear about the “attack.
“I offer my deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured, to the Filipino Canadian community, and to everyone in Vancouver. We are all mourning with you,” he said.
The driver of the vehicle has been arrested.
At present, the motive for the attack is unknown.