The car plows at the Vancouver Street exhibition, killing people

A driver at a street festival to honor the Philippine population in Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday evening, killing “a number of people”, according to the local police.

Police said they had taken the reservation suspects: the driver, a 30 -year -old man from Vancouver. At a press conference overnight, local officials did not specify the number of deaths and wounded, saying only that they were multiple.

They also did not treat a possible motivation, but they said the driver was already known to the police. The crowd members subjected the man before the police arrived at the scene.

People abroad were celebrating Labo Labo Day A festival in the southern part of the city when the driver went to the crowd shortly after 8 pm He said on social media.

A video of the local media showed ambulances and police cars lining up on the roads near the festival, where medical emergency workers tend to people on the ground.

Vancouver mayor, Ken Sim, He said He was shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific accident. “

A spokeswoman for Vancouver General Hospital said they had received many patients who were injured at the festival.

In the position of social media, Prime Minister Mark Carney from Canada said that he “was destroyed to hear the horrific events at the Labo Labo Festival in Vancouver earlier in this evening.”

He said: “I offer the deepest condolences to the loved ones of those who were killed and injured, to the Canadian Filipino society, and for everyone in Vancouver.” “We are all sad with you.”

Labo Labo’s day was officially announced on April 27, 2023, by the British Columbia County as evidence of the legacy of Dato Labo Labo, a leader from McCtan, the Philippines, who is a national hero to rise against Spanish colonies in the early fifteenth century. The authorities said that up to 100,000 people attended the festival on Saturday.

There are nearly a million Filipino immigrants and people of Filipino origin who live in Canada, according to the government. The British Columbia County is home to nearly five of this number.