At least 11 people were killed when a man drove through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver on Saturday evening, Canadian police said.

A man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20 others, in what authorities described as a car ramming attack that shook the country ahead of a federal election.

A number of people have been killed and multiple others injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festivalin the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday. The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X.