At least 11 people killed after car plows into crowd at Vancouver Filipino festival | CNN
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A driver plowed a car into a crowd at a street festival celebrating Filipino heritage in Vancouver on Saturday night, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more in what police are calling “the darkest day” in the city’s history.

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.

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“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.”

  • altphotoEnglish
    4817·
    9 hours ago

    Cars are a terrorist threat! We should remove them from our streets.

    • Eril@feddit.orgEnglish
      191·
      6 hours ago

      Only a good guy with a car can stop a bad guy with a car though. Also if everyone in a crowd had a car, stuff like this wouldn’t be possible.

      /s for the people in the back

    • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      5 hours ago

      Actually, I agree. Put them underground, in a tunnel, where people aren’t walking.

      Walking > Bikes > Trains > Buses > fuck cars.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Don’t put them in the city at all, even in a tunnel. If you’re going into the city, park and take transit.

        Yeah, I know some people can’t do that because they’re working and need tools, e.g. plumbers, but if we get all the casual drivers on transit it’s good enough.