{"id":7834,"date":"2025-04-27T05:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:16:06","slug":"number-of-people-killed-as-driver-plows-into-crowd-vancouver-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=7834","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Number of people&#8217; killed as driver plows into crowd, Vancouver police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">A &#8220;number of people&#8221; were killed and other were injured Saturday as a vehicle plowed into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, law enforcement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The driver is in custody,&#8221; the Vancouver Police Department <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VancouverPD\/status\/1916348189449634129\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Crowds had gathered in the Canadian city&#8217;s downtown to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day, Mayor Ken Sim <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KenSimCity\/status\/1916350887288836313\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a statement. A vehicle &#8220;drove into a crowd&#8221; at the festival near the intersection of E 41st Avenue and Fraser Street at about 8 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Our thoughts are with all those affected and with Vancouver&#8217;s Filipino community during this incredibly difficult time,&#8221; Sim said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;number of people&#8221; were killed and other were injured Saturday as a vehicle plowed into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, law enforcement said. &#8220;The driver is in custody,&#8221; the Vancouver Police Department said in a social media post. Crowds had gathered in the Canadian city&#8217;s downtown to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7835,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}