Several deaths are being reported from the Canadian city of Vancouver after a driver ran over a crowd at a street festival. The local police said the incident occurred around 8 pm (local time). The driver has been taken into custody by the police.

The truck-ramming came during a celebration honoring Datu Lapu-Lapu, the Filipino chieftain who defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan in 1521 a

In the days after a motorist drove into a crowd at a Filipino festival in Vancouver, killing 11, Toronto's Filipino community has banded together in solidarity and grief, including two people who left the festival just before the incident.