{"id":4732,"date":"2025-04-27T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2025-04-27T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T17:00:14","slug":"nine-people-killed-in-vancouver-after-vehicle-plows-into-filipino-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakjazbo.com\/?p=4732","title":{"rendered":"Nine people killed in Vancouver after vehicle plows into Filipino festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Vancouver Sun says thousands of people were in area.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Canadian prime minister &#8220;devastated to hear&#8221; about it.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>I looked down road, there\u2019s just bodies everywhere, says witness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nine people have been confirmed dead after a man drove through a crowd at last night&#8217;s Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver, police said in an X post on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said multiple others were injured in the western Canadian city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X, without giving further details.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2025-04-27\/602016_3107774_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Nine people killed in Vancouver after vehicle plows into Filipino festival\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident happened shortly after 8pm (0300 GMT) near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party was taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on X: &#8220;I am devastated to hear about the horrific events at the Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver earlier this evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vancouver&#8217;s Mayor Ken Sim and British Columbia Premier David Eby posted similar comments on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One witness told&nbsp;<em>CTV News<\/em>&nbsp;he saw a black vehicle driving erratically in the area of the festival just before the crowd was struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/assets\/uploads\/updates\/2025-04-27\/602016_2742351_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Nine people killed in Vancouver after vehicle plows into Filipino festival\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada&#8217;s New Democratic Party, was among the attendees at the event, but left minutes before the vehicle arrived,&nbsp;<em>CTV&nbsp;<\/em>news said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This is so horrific, I don\u2019t even know what to say,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>CTV&nbsp;<\/em>quoted Singh as saying. &#8220;I was just there, and I just imagine the faces of the kids that I saw smiling and dancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canada&#8217;s federal election takes place on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<em>Vancouver Sun<\/em>&nbsp;said thousands of people had been in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I didn\u2019t get to see the driver, all I heard was an engine rev,&#8221; Yoseb Vardeh, co-owner of food truck Bao Buns, said in an interview with&nbsp;<em>Postmedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I got outside my food truck, I looked down the road and there\u2019s just bodies everywhere,\u201d said Vardeh, as his voice broke. &#8220;He went through the whole block, he went straight down the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine people have been confirmed dead after a man drove through a crowd at last night&#8217;s Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver, police said in an X post on Sunday. 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