A driver slammed an SUV into a crowd of Filipino festival goers in Vancouver, Canada, Saturday night, killing multiple people and leaving many more injured, according to authorities.
“A number of people have been killed and multiple others are injured after a driver drove into a crowd at a street festival at E. 41st Avenue and Fraser shortly after 8 p.m. tonight,” the Vancouver Police Department wrote on X.
The driver of the car is in custody, VPD stated. It was not clear why the driver ran into the crowd.
Large police presence at the scene of Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu Day block party on April 26, 2025. X/marcmaravillas
Festival goers were celebrating Lapu Lapu Day, a public holiday honoring Filipino heritage, according to local City News.
The black SUV that supposedly went through the festival is shown with a crushed front hood and had deployed airbags in the driver’s side window, according to video circulating online.
Images from the festival showed outright carnage — with dozens of injured people being tended to by first responders and civilians on an idyllic street covered in broken car parts and lined with food trucks.
“There’s a baby over there! There’s a baby under the truck,” the videographer yelled to arriving medics. “Oh Lord,” she said later.
Some victims appear to be grievously wounded as they lay motionless and bloody on the street.
One EMS unit is seen desperately providing CPR to a victim while dozens of other first responders make mad dashes to aid the wounded.
Festival goers were celebrating Lapu Lapu Day, a public holiday honoring Filipino heritage. Lapu-Lapu Day
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh appears on stage at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, hours before the incident. REUTERS
“I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today’s Lapu Lapu Day event. We will work to provide more information as soon as we can,” Ken Sim, mayor of Vancouver, wrote on X.
“Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver’s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time,” the mayor added.
