Several people died and others were injured in a massive outrage at a street festival in Vancouver last night, as reported by the Canadian police. The driver of the vehicle, according to several witnesses, a black Audi SUV, is already detained and the police have assured that it is not a terrorist act.
“Several people have died and others were injured after a driver rammed a crowd,” the police reported in their X account. The outrage took place shortly after 20.00 local time (the 5.00, Spanish peninsular time) in a street full of people in Vancouver.
A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured after a driver drove into a crowd at a street festival at E. 41st Avenue and Fraser shortly after 8 p.m. tonight. The driver is in custody. We will provide more information as the investigation unfolds.
– Vancouver Police (@vancouverpd)
The incident has occurred a few hours after the parliamentary elections that will be held this Monday in Canada. The country’s political leaders, with Prime Minister Mark Carney at the head, have begun to give their condolences. The Carney Rival, Pierre Poilievre, has declared himself “shocked by the terrible news that emerged from the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver tonight.”
In the first press conference after the incident, the chief acting of the Vancouver police, Steve Rai, has identified the detainee as a man in his 30s, known by the security forces “under certain circumstances.” Rai did not want to realize an exact number of victims because they have been “sent to different hospitals in the region.”
