Man arrested after car drives into Vancouver street festival

男子驾车冲入温哥华街头庆典后被捕

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2025-04-28

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There have been a number of fatalities when a car was driven at high-speed into festivalgoers in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Also: a human chain helps a Michigan bookshop owner move her stock to a new home.
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  • This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Bernadette Keogh and in the early hours of Monday,

  • the 28th of April, these are our main stories.

  • Canadian police say a man arrested after a car was rammed into festival goers in Vancouver,

  • killing 11 people, suffered mental health problems.

  • Israel has carried out its first airstrike in about a month on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital,

  • Beirut.

  • The authorities in southern Iran have announced three days of mourning for dozens of people who died in a massive explosion at the country's biggest commercial port.

  • Also in this podcast... A heartwarming story.

  • Residents of a small town in the US state of Michigan form a human chain to help a bookshop owner move thousands of items to new premises further down the street.

  • Police in Canada have described an incident that is now known to have killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival as a car ramming attack.

  • More than 20 people were injured in the incident on Saturday in Vancouver.

  • An investigation is ongoing.

  • The driver, a man in his 30s, was arrested at the scene.

  • Yousef Vade was selling buns from a food truck at the festival when the attack happened.

  • I barely made it like maybe 20 feet and I just saw that.

  • Just in that small amount of space, how much devastation there was.

  • We're talking bodies were underneath food trucks that were hit by the car and people crying over their loved ones within 20 feet of me.

  • Police say they're not treating the incident as an act of terrorism.

  • Addressing the nation, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney,