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Residents and festival-goers are nonetheless attempting to reconcile what occurred on the Lapu Lapu Day occasion in Vancouver on Saturday night time.
Simply after 8 p.m., a person drove his SUV right into a crowd of individuals, killing 11 and injuring dozens extra.
Bjorn Villaruel attended the pageant and was leaving when he stated he noticed the SUV drive into a bunch of individuals.
“I used to be simply standing at one of many cubicles shopping for one thing and I heard this banging sound,” he informed International Information.
“I’m seeing individuals flying, like one or two, proper in entrance of me, simply ft away from me.”
Villaruel stated he thought it was a automobile accident however then he stated he noticed the SUV speed up once more towards some meals vehicles and other people, then it stopped and accelerated once more in direction of individuals.
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“I really feel the hate,” he stated, breaking down in tears. “I went to assist, that’s my individuals.”
Villaruel stated it was “horrific.”
“Each time I hear a automobile proper now, I really feel there’s hate.”
He stated it was busy on the time, full of individuals, and nobody thought something like this might occur.
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Aadiah Muhamad and her husband Mohamed Sairmen personal the Kampong meals truck, which serves Malaysian meals.
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They had been working on the pageant all day and stated it was a good time, everybody was so pleasant they usually bought out of meals.
They had been simply on the point of begin cleansing up and packing up when Muhamad stated she heard a sequence of very loud bangs.
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“Simply increase, increase, increase,” she stated.
Sairmen stated they thought a propane tank had exploded, the noise was so loud.
However after they seemed out of the service window of the truck they noticed an individual mendacity there, already lifeless.
“We noticed individuals in the back of our truck, injured,” Sairmen stated. “One man was holding his leg.”
They left the truck and helped the injured as finest they may.
“So unhappy,” Muhamad stated. “Such a tragedy.”
She stated they really feel sorry for the victims and everyone seems to be asking why this occurred to such a beautiful, loving neighborhood.
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“We’re so sorry, for the neighborhood,” Muhmad stated.
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International BC anchor Jason Pires attended the pageant on Saturday and stated it was a joyous family-friendly occasion.
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He emceed the occasion on Saturday and stated the meals truck space was a brand new addition to the pageant this yr.
“Such a stark distinction with such a joyous event and such a tragedy on the finish,” Pires stated.
“Simply such a compassionate, hard-working individuals and that’s why I feel everyone seems to be simply reeling.”
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Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, has been charged with eight counts of second-degree homicide on the time of publication.
He stays in custody, pending a courtroom date. He was taken into custody shortly after the incident on Saturday.
A motive for the incident stays unclear.
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