{"id":114253,"date":"2025-04-27T06:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/driver-in-custody-after-car-hits-crowd-at-vancouver-street-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:03:34","slug":"driver-in-custody-after-car-hits-crowd-at-vancouver-street-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/driver-in-custody-after-car-hits-crowd-at-vancouver-street-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver in Custody After Car Hits Crowd at Vancouver Street Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 27 \u2013 A \u201cnumber of people have been killed\u201d after a car was driven into a crowd in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local police have said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Police said \u201cmultiple others\u201d were injured during an incident at a street festival on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The force said the driver is in custody.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known how many people have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, police said \u201ca driver drove into a crowd at a street festival at E. 41st Avenue and Fraser\u201d shortly after 20:00 local time on Saturday (03:00 GMT Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will provide more information as the investigation unfolds,\u201d a statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>Local media reported that a group of pedestrians was hit by a car during the annual Lapu Lapu festival, which celebrates Filipino culture.<\/p>\n<p>Unverified footage on social media showed a number of police cars, ambulances and fire engines at the scene, with injured people lying on the ground.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 27 \u2013 A \u201cnumber of people have been killed\u201d after a car was driven into a crowd in the Canadian city of Vancouver, local police have said. Vancouver Police said \u201cmultiple others\u201d were injured during an incident at a street festival on Saturday evening. The force said the driver is in custody. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}