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Toronto Sun
27-04-2025
- Toronto Sun
Vancouver festival ramming is latest attack to use vehicles as deadly weapons
Published Apr 27, 2025 • 1 minute read 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. Photo by DON MACKINNON / AFP via Getty Images MONTREAL — A car-ramming at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver that killed at least nine people marks Canada's fourth attack in seven years in which vehicles have been used as deadly weapons. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Around the world, people fuelled by motives ranging from terrorism and far-right extremism to misogyny and mental illness have deployed the tactic increasingly in recent decades. A San Jose State University study from 2018 notes that vehicles are 'easily obtainable, and a ramming attack requires little preparation' or skill. The gruesome practice has also proven devastating, yielding a high death toll in horrific fashion when crowds are gathered. Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai said a 30-year-old local man was arrested for Saturday night's attack after an SUV plowed through a crowded South Vancouver street at high speed in a nightmarish scene that left a trail of wreckage and victims strewn on the ground. Police said on social media platform X they were 'confident' the incident was not an act of terrorism. Canada Sports Sunshine Girls Columnists Columnists
RNZ News
27-04-2025
- RNZ News
Nine dead after vehicle drives into crowd at Vancouver, Canada street festival, police say
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 . Photo: AFP / DON MACKINNON Nine people were killed and multiple others were injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday. Police arrested a 30-year-old Vancouver man at the scene. At a midnight press conference, police said that the suspect was "known" to them but did not elaborate. The man was initially taken into custody by people at the scene. They later confirmed that nine people had died in the incident. The incident happened shortly after 8pm local time near East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street, where the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party, celebrating a Philippine national hero, was taking place. A screenshot from Canadian Broadcasting Company coverage. Photo: Screenshot / CBC Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on X: "I am devastated to hear about the horrific events at the Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver earlier this evening." Vancouver's Mayor Ken Sim and British Columbia Premier David Eby posted similar comments on X. 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. One witness told CTV News he saw a black vehicle driving erratically in the area of the festival just before the crowd was struck. Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party, was among the attendees at the event, but left minutes before the vehicle arrived, CTV news said. "This is so horrific, I don't even know what to say," CTV quoted Singh as saying. "I was just there, and I just imagine the faces of the kids that I saw smiling and dancing." Canada's federal election takes place on Monday (Tuesday NZT). The Vancouver Sun said thousands of people had been in the area. "I didn't get to see the driver, all I heard was an engine rev," Yoseb Vardeh, co-owner of food truck Bao Buns, said in an interview with Postmedia. "I got outside my food truck, I looked down the road and there's just bodies everywhere," said Vardeh, as his voice broke. "He went through the whole block, he went straight down the middle." - Reuters
