What happens when a city fails to block access to streets to a street festival?<\/p>\n
9 people killed when a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival crowd in Vancouver<\/a><\/p>\n VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 A man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in\u00a0the Canadian city of Vancouver<\/span>, killing at least nine people and injuring an unknown number of others, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n The vehicle entered the street at 8:14 p.m. on Saturday and struck people attending the Lapu Lapu Day festival, the Vancouver Police Department said in a social media post.<\/p>\n Several other people were injured, but the exact number of casualties wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n A 30-year-old Vancouver man was arrested at the scene and the department\u2019s Major Crime Section is overseeing the investigation, police said.<\/p>\n \u201cAt this time, we are confident that this incident was not an act of terrorism,\u201d the police department posted early Sunday.<\/p>\n Interim Vancouver Police Chief Steve Rai told a news conference that the man was arrested after initially being apprehended by bystanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What happens when a city fails to block access to streets to a street festival? 9 people killed when a vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival crowd in Vancouver VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 A man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in\u00a0the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing at … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109614,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109613\/revisions\/109614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}