UBC student describes moment of Lapu-Lapu Day festival crash
Maya Fernando, a University of B.C. student, was attending the Lapu-Lapu Day Filipino street festival on Saturday night. She describes seeing the first fire truck pull up after an SUV crashed into festival-goers, and "feeling her heart sink" as she realized people had lost their lives in the ramming attack.
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