A driver plowed into a group of partygoers attending a Filipino street festival on Saturday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, killing at least 11 people, the city’s interim police chief said, adding that there may be deaths among the “dozens” of people who were injured.
The interim chief, Steve Rai, said Sunday that a 30-year-old man from Vancouver was in custody, and that police previously had “substantive contact with him over mental health issues.” He declined to attribute any motive to the festival attack.
Investigators had ruled out terrorism as a motive, Vancouver police said in an email early Sunday, but they did not offer further details. Prime Minister Mark Carney, who described the incident as a “car-ramming attack,” said federal national security officials “do not believe that there is any active threat to Canadians.”
Evidence markers and Vancouver Police vehicles sit at a scene after a driver killed multiple people Saturday during a Filipino community festival Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)Photographs published by news agencies showed what appeared to be a black SUV with significant damage to the front of the vehicle, and its air bags deployed.
“At approximately 8:14 p.m. on April 26, a man drove into a large crowd of people attending the Lapu Lapu Day Festival near East 43rd Avenue and Fraser Street,” Vancouver police said in a post on social media. The annual event celebrates Datu Lapu Lapu, a national hero in the Philippines.
The incident occurred less than 48 hours before federal elections were set to take place in Canada.
Underscoring the police’s initial assessment that the attack was an isolated event, police will allow a 10-kilometer run that drew more than 45,000 entrants last year to go ahead Sunday.
Alan Kane, a witness, told CBC Radio that just before the attack, the crowd on the street where it occurred was “wall to wall” and lined up for food trucks. He said that it appeared that the street was blocked to traffic only by plastic barriers.
Several witnesses told Canadian news outlets that those barriers had been pulled back before the incident. Kris Pangilinan, who was selling clothing at a booth, said that some cars and trucks had been allowed into the crowded street to allow vendors to pack up their stands. The Audi SUV, he said, had initially moved cautiously into the crowd before rapidly accelerating, knocking down victims.
“It looked like we literally in a war zone,” Pangilinan told the CBC.
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