Nine killed as driver plows into Filipino festival in Canada [Video]

Canada said Sunday that a man staged a deliberate attack by driving his car into a crowd at a Filipino street festival and killing nine people, but the assault was not considered to be terrorism.

With the country in shock a day before its national election, police spokesman Steve Rai said the lone 30-year-old male suspect arrested in the Saturday evening attack in the western city of Vancouver was known to police.

The Filipino community had gathered in the city’s Sunset on Fraser neighborhood when festivalgoers were hit by a black SUV. The celebration called the Lapu Lapu Festival commemorates a Filipino anti-colonial leader from the 16th century.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a brief address to the nation, called the incident deliberate, saying Vancouver police describe it as “a car-ramming attack.”

“Last night families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son, or a daughter,” he …