VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A 30-year-old man was charged with multiple counts of murder on allegations he killed 11 people when he rammed a crowd of people at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, as hundreds attended vigils across the city for the victims and the Canadian prime minister visited the site on the eve of a federal election.

The youngest victim of an attack on a festival, killed when a madman sped through a packed Canadian street fair, was just five years old, police revealed in the first disclosure about the victims. Eleven people were killed in the Saturday massacre at the Lapu Lapu Day Block Party in Vancouver,

Police officers work at the scene in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27, 2025, after a vehicle drove into a crowd