A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least nine people and injuring others.

Some of those attending the festival helped arrest the suspect at the scene, who police identified as a 30-year-old man.

“It’s something you don’t expect to see in your lifetime,” Kris Pangilinan, a Toronto-based journalist, told Canadian public broadcaster CBC. “[The driver] just slammed the pedal down and rammed into hundreds of people. It was like seeing a bowling ball hit — all the bowling pins and all the pins flying up in the air.”

He continued, “It was like a war zone… There were bodies all over the ground.”

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Is it a terrorist attack if it’s a mental health issue?

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      1 day ago

      Where are you “mental health issues” people coming from? I know you people are brainwashed by the car corporations but come on now half my inbox is full of you.

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        18 hours ago

        ok so this is reminding me of “guns kill people” vs “people kill people.” In Canada we understand both are true. Drivers are a problem and carbrain culture is a problem and mental health issues are a problem.