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At least nine People were killed after the car was guided in a crowd on the street festival in Vancouver, the police confirmed.

Authorities in the Western Canadian city were said that “multiple others” was injured during the incident, which appeared approximately 20:14 Local Time Saturday (03:14 GMT on Sunday) on the street festival.

Police said that the 30-year-old man was suspected in custody and that they were “convinced that this incident was not a terrorist act.” The investigation of the incident is in progress.

Police said the suspect was driving in pedestrians at the Lapu Lapu Annual Festival celebrating Filipino Culture, in the east of 43rd Avenue and Fraser, in the south of Vancouver.

Steve Rai, temporary head of Police Vancouver, said at a press conference that there was one vehicle and a suspect in the incident. He said more details will be released in the morning.

The owner of the diet truck that sells Bao buns at the festival, Yoseb Vardeh, said the BBC World Service for the attack to happen in front of his van.

“That guy, he killed some of my customers,” he said. “There were people waiting for their buns that hit.”

Mr. Vardeh added: “I went out in front of my food vehicle and just saw the bodies under people on people, husbands who cried for their women or their children … It was awful.”

Non-cleared recordings published on social media showed numerous police cars, ambulances and fire engines on stage, and injured people lie on the field.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the statement of X that he was “devastated to hear about the back events on the Lapo Festival in Vancouver”.

He continued, “The deepest condolences to those killed and injured, in the Philippino Canadian community and everyone in Vancouver. We all mourn with you.”

He also thanked the emergency agents for their “rapid action”.

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said he was “shocked and a deeply accidental incident”, adding to the post that his “They are thinking of all the affected and Vancouver’s Philippine community during this incredibly difficult time.”

One of Vancouver City Councils, Peter Fry, told the BBC that local residents fought to process what happened.

“This celebration was huge, fun, vivid, family street fun, and he was a fantastic event. To see that so quickly and unexpectedly, I think the whole city is in shock,” he said.

Dan Lapa Lapa is celebrated every year on the Philippines 27. April to boarding the Lapu-Lapu, a national hero that resisted Spanish colonization.

The festival was officially placed in Vancouver 2023. years. His website says that “symbolizes cultural harmony and mutual respect that progresses in the province of British Columbia”.

In the sail attack, Leaders of different political parties also share compliance messages.

Pierre Poilievre, the Canada Conservative Party leader, called an incidental “meaningless attack”, while the leader of the British Columbia was a new David Eby Democratic Party, said “shocked and” shocked. “

The new leader of the Democratic Party of Jagmeet Singh – who attended the festival, but was not present when the incident happened – he said that “horrified to learn” that the innocent people were killed and injured.

“As we wait for us to learn more, our thoughts are with the victims and their families – and the Vancouver’s Filipino community, which today gathered to celebrate resistance,” he added.

Singh, Poilievre and Carney are all in Canada in Canada on Monday Monday. Singhova Election unit Burnaby Central Lies east of where the event occurred.