Canadian PM says families ‘living a nightmare’ after car kills nine at Vancouver festival

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has said families are “living every family's nightmare” after a car ploughed into a street festival in Vancouver on Saturday evening (26 April).

Nine people were killed, and an unknown number of others injured, in the mass-casualty incident at an event organised by the local Filipino community.

“Last night, families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son, or a daughter,” Carney said in a statement on Sunday (27 April).

“Those families are living every family's nightmare,” he added.

While Canadian authorities have said they are “confident” the incident was “not an act of terrorism,” Carney noted that they are “monitoring the situation closely.”