GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White has shared the latest updates from Canada after a car ramming attack at a festival in Vancouver, which police are determining is "not an act of terrorism".At least nine people have been killed and several others injured after a vehicle ploughed into a crowd at the Lapu Lapu Filipino street festival in Vancouver.FULL STORY HERE.
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00:00Well, 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.
00:16Hundreds, thousands attending this event when an SUV, a sports utility vehicle, ploughed right down the middle of a road where festival goers were there lined on both sides of that particular road by food trucks and it was a horrific scene.
00:37Emergency services responded very quickly, but there were just so many people that were badly injured, other people fatally injured, that we expect there will be a significant number who have died as yet.
00:53The police are only saying that several people have died.
00:56Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, has said,
01:00I'm devastated to hear about the horrific events at the Lapu-Lapu Festival in Vancouver earlier this evening.
01:07I offer my deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed and injured, to the Filipino-Canadian community and to everyone in Vancouver.
01:16We are mourning with you.
01:18Well, in terms of the motivation for this, the police in Vancouver have just said that they don't believe it was a terrorist attack.
01:26However, it does seem from all reports that this was a deliberate attack nonetheless.
01:34The images of that SUV are just shocking.
01:38The 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.
01:53The airbags on that vehicle deployed.