(27 Apr 2025)
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Vancouver, Canada – 27 April 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Abigail Andiso, eyewitness to festival car attack:
"What I did is to go, for the, go towards the direction of the car, and then that’s when I saw people, there’s a lot more on the ground, and then, that’s when I started telling to 911, please send us ambulance, send us ambulance. That’s what I was only saying. And then when I was asked, can you describe to us what’s happening, what is on the scene, because I just said, can you…there’s a hit and run, I don’t know if it’s a hit and run, but there’s car. There’s a car that went just through the whole street and just hitting everyone. and I saw one dead, one man on the ground, and I went, as I go further towards the end where the car went, then there’s more casualties, and you can see straight away there’s about 20, 30, maybe 20 people down, and everyone is panicking, everyone is screaming, and like nobody knows what to do."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dale Selipe, eyewitness to festival car attack:
"We were just shopping around, like inside. It was a it was a caged area where the shops were at. So we were there for probably about five minutes and then I heard a bang, they heard a bang. Oh my gosh, What’s up? What’s happening? So we all like went running to the street. So James went to other side and Abby on the other side, but I didn’t know, but for me I was wondering like what’s going on? So I I was just wondering because I didn’t really see anybody anybody so I thought it was just a gunshot so I just walked through the strip and that’s when I saw bodies like it was really like about 15 to 30 seconds that which uh with that incident that happened right so, I just walked along the street and looked at the bodies like but it really I think it took some photos too but like like, I said it was really dead and then uh Abby was calling me hey the truck is over there on the very end of the strip, the truck that was used to run through the bodies so yeah. that’s all i saw. It’s really sad because like i said they were all twisted bodies, some with head injuries, two kids that i saw, a baby and then also probably an 11 year old child, like I said, three bodies were stuffed under the food truck and alongside with all bodies laying down on each side of the the strip. So it’s like a block, a block of the strip, right, of the inside street, and where food trucks are on both ends."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dale Selipe, eyewitness to festival car attack:
"It’s very sad because it’s supposed to be a time for you know, it’s summer time so it’s a time for everybody to just go out and have fun and enjoy the food, enjoy, and like a family to be together and then for that to happen of course it’s very disheartening especially with the kids involved there like family members, grandparents get affected like where you could se e all the the dead bodies there. So of course, it’s very heartbreaking, right, to see that."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) James Cruzat, eyewitness to festival car attack:
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STORYLINE:
Three eyewitnesses described what they saw after at least nine people were killed when a man drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, police said Sunday.
The three eyewitness, who all have links to the Filipino community and are Vancouver residents, said they were in the shopping area at the end of the all-day Lapu Lapu festival when they heard the revving of a vehicle and loud noises from the street.
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