A victim lies near a food truck after a car drove into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver on Saturday April 26, 2025. There has been a number of fatalities and numerous injuries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
Vancouver Police Interim Chief Steve Rai provides an update after an SUV plowed through a Vancouver street festival being staged by the city's Filipino community Saturday night. Police said several people are dead and multiple people were also injured and sent to several hospitals. (April 27, 2025 / The Canadian Press)
Vancouver Police Interim Chief Steve Rai provides an update after an SUV plowed through a Vancouver street festival being staged by the city's Filipino community Saturday night. Police said several people are dead and multiple people were also injured and sent to several hospitals. (April 27, 2025 / The Canadian Press)
Three eyewitnesses described what they saw after the driver of a car struck revellers at a street festival in Canada, killing at least nine people. The three eyewitness, who all have links to the Filipino community and are Vancouver residents, said they were in the shopping area at the end of the all-day Lapu Lapu festival when they heard the revving of a vehicle and loud noises from the street. (AP Video / April 27, 2025)
The Filipino community is gathering at a church in Vancouver on Sunday morning to honour and support festival victims as shock and grief ripped through the community after Saturday’s SUV attack that killed 11. Hip-hop artist Jacob Bureros performed at the block party Saturday, and he saw the vehicle had run into the crowd, prompting him and other bystanders to chase down the suspect. (April 27, 2025 / The Canadian Press)
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A victim lies near a food truck after a car drove into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Festival in Vancouver on Saturday April 26, 2025. There has been a number of fatalities and numerous injuries. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
By Chuck Chiang, Nono Shen, Ashley Joannou and Brieanna Charlebois The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - Charges have been laid against a man after an attack during a Vancouver Filipino festival on Saturday night that killed 11 people.Â
Vancouver Police say Adam Kai-Ji Lo faces eight counts of second-degree murder and further charges are anticipated.
Const. Tania Visintin says some victims remain unidentified.
Vancouver Police have said those who were killed range in age from five to 65 and the death toll could rise as dozens more were hurt when an SUV raced down a street where the Lapu Lapu Day festival was just wrapping up.Â
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Police previously said a 30-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, and that their officers had numerous encounters with him in the past over “mental health issues.”Â
Witnesses said victims were sent flying as a black Audi SUV sped through the crowd at the festival just after 8 p.m. on Saturday.Â
Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steven Rai says the senseless and heartbreaking attack marks the “darkest day” in the city’s history.Â
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 27, 2025.Â
Note to readers:This is a corrected story. A previous version misstated the death toll in the 2018 º£½ÇÉçÇø¹ÙÍøvan attack.
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