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Well, Camilla, a terrible event that unfolded into the evening in Vancouver, early morning, our time at a festival that was there to celebrate the Filipino culture within Canada and this Western city
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hundreds, thousands attending this event when an SUV, a sports utility vehicle
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ploughed right down the middle of a road where festival goers were there
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lined on both sides of that particular road by food trucks. And it was a horrific scene
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Emergency services responded very quickly but there were just so many people
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that were badly injured. and other people fatally injured that we expect there will be a significant number who have died as yet
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The police are only saying that several people have died. Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, has said
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I'm devastated to hear about the horrific events at the Lapu-Lapu Festival in Vancouver earlier this evening
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I offer my deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured
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to the Filipino-Canadian community and to everyone in Vancouver, we are mourning with you
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Well, in terms of the motivation for this, the police in Vancouver have just said that they don't believe it was a terrorist attack
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However, it does seem from all reports that this was a deliberate attack
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Nonetheless, the images of that SUV are just shocking. The front of the SUV itself all crumpled in because of the speed it was doing and the impact created by hitting human beings as it was careering for hundreds of metres down this road
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The airbags on that vehicle deployed
