Vehicle crashes into Vancouver festival participants with casualties and injuries reported

On April 26, during a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, a vehicle drove into a crowd. The incident resulted in several fatalities and injuries. The driver has been detained.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim stated that the incident occurred during the celebration of Filipino community’s Lapu-Lapu Day. He expressed his condolences to the victims and the community.

Such incidents had previously occurred on April 1 in Nagoya, Japan, where a vehicle went off the curb and injured seven people.