A despair of a despair from the car attack on the festival

On any normal day, the South Vancouver neighborhood was the sounds of life, but Saturday was not an ordinary day. It was a celebration of the Philippine culture, and music was frequent from a direct concert across the streets where families lined up in food trucks and children.

On Sunday it was strangely silent.

“It gives me chills,” said Franchesca Gabo, and he takes everything in it.

Mrs. Gabo, 20, left the festival shortly before the SUV shocked the people’s bloc, killing 11 years old and wounding more than 30.

Now, she returned, and she joined the improvised stand for people looking for the police tape and is trying to absorb what happened.

“It was a happy day yesterday,” said Ms. Gabo. “Everyone was celebrating.”

The authorities say that the motive for the attack does not seem to be terrorism. After that, only a little suspect appeared in the reservation, unlike being a 30 -year -old man with a history of mental illness. Now, accused of death.

More is known for the victims in the festival that celebrates the day of Labo Labo.

The youngest of her was Katie Lu, a 5 -year -old girl who was killed with her parents, Richard Lu, 47, and Liny Huang, 30, according to local news reports. Relatives said that the 16 -year -old son of Lu, Andy, survived, due to a decision at the last minute to overcome the festival in favor of homework.

A Board of Directors in a nearby suburb said that a guidance consultant named Keira Selim was also among the dead. “We have left the loss of our friend and colleague, all of us are shocked and sad,” she said in a statement.

The collection of money began to help the wounded people in the attack and return the remains of at least one victim killed.

More than 960,000 people in Canada of Filipino origin, according to the government, where about half of them live in Vancouver, Toronto and Cleari. In June 2023, a government report noted a strong representation of the Filipinos in the sectors of trading, health care, services and business administration.

The report said: “The Filipino Canadians are among the most difficult people in Canada.”

Many arrived in Canada through foreign workers’ programs, including the live care providers program that lasted between 1992 and 2014 and Resettle About 75,000 Filipino.

Angelo Cruz, who grew up in the neighborhood where the festival fell, said on Monday that his mother, despite obtaining a master’s degree in science, worked as a nanny so that she could obtain residency and help the rest of her family in immigration.

Mr. Cruz said: “You are making this sacrifice, and give up raising your child, because you want your child to have a better life.”

But it is supposed to be the day of Abo Labo, a break from all of this.

“It was the only time that we wanted to express ourselves and enjoy – and we were not even able to get this,” said Mr. Cruz, the human resources official who grew up in the society in which the festival was held. “It was a snare for me.”

The edge of the neighborhood is decorated with flags in yellow, blue blue, white, red, and the national colors of the Philippines, although the streets are lined with a mixture of companies and restaurants that offer not only Filipino Filipino but also Vietnam, Chinese and Hindi.

On Sunday, Mr. Cruz and his family came out of a pin, a restaurant that offers traditional favorites such as PANCIT PAABOK, pasta and shrimp and shrimp, and Philippine spring rolls known as Lumpia. Then they went to the protest sites.

In one of them, it took an arturo macapagal, the operating room nurse who is often in the neighborhood, a moment to say a quiet prayer, to which a priest joined.

Mr. Macpalagal said: “At any time, especially the Philippine society, it relates to food, happiness, joy, laughter and friendship.”

When Prime Minister Mark Carne came to pay his respect, the crowd broke out to a “amazing blessing”.

Amid the mourning, life continued.

Street music was criticized from the Proud Pinoy Grocery store, a center for specialized food products. Shoppers have browsed the shelves carrying dried fish called Tuyo, heavy bags of jasmine rice and sweet corn flakes. A poster announces the Labo Labo Festival is still registered to the door.