Multiple dead at Vancouver street festival, driver arrested, say VPD
Apr 26, 2025 | 10:03 PM
VANCOUVER — Vancouver Police say multiple people are dead after a person drove a car through a street festival in the city’s Eastside.
Police say in a social media post that the driver has been taken into custody, and that multiple people have also been injured.
They say the person “drove into a crowd” at the street festival at East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street just after 8 p.m. Friday.
The Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Day festival was underway at the time in the South Vancouver neighbourhood.
