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Nine Killed, Multiple Others Injured After Driver Rams SUV into Crowded Vancouver Street Festival

Nine people are dead and dozens left injured after a driver sent an SUV careering into a crowded street festival in Vancouver late Saturday night.

AP reports the vehicle entered the Canadian street where people were attending a Filipino community festival just after 8 p.m. Friday, the Vancouver Police Department said in a social media post.

“A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured after a driver drove into a crowd,” police said.

The exact number of dead and injured was later updated:

The driver, a 30-year-old Vancouver man, was arrested at the scene, police said.

The Lapu Lapu Day festival was being held in a South Vancouver neighbourhood. Video posted on social media showed victims and debris strewn across a long stretch of road, with at least seven people lying immobile on the ground.

A black SUV with a crumpled front section could be seen in still photos from the scene.

Vancouver police investigate a crime scene after a man drove into pedestrians at the annual Lapu Lapu festival celebrating Filipino culture, at East 43rd Avenue and Fraser, in the south of Vancouver on April 26, 2025. Canadian police later arrested a suspect. (DON MACKINNON/AFP via Getty Images)

“One suspect, one vehicle,” Interim Police Chief Steve Rai told reporters when asked whether police are looking for anyone else, the BBC reports.

Rai was asked whether the apprehended suspect has a criminal record.

“It would be inappropriate for me to get into those kind of details at this point,” Rai said, adding it would be “unfair” to make comments on whether the suspect was on bail.

He insisted the focus remains on the victims and their families.

Multiple people have been killed and injured after a vehicle drove into crowds at a street festival in Vancouver. (Ufuk Celal Guzel/Anadolu via Getty)

Vancouver Mayor Kenneth Sim said in a social media post that the city would provide more information when possible.

“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event,” Sim said. “Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time.”

Vancouver had more than 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage in 2021, representing 5.9 percent of the city’s total population, according to Statistics Canada, the agency that conducts the national census, AP reports.

More to come…

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