(Reuters) - A number of people were killed and multiple others were injured in Vancouver after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in the western Canadian city, police said on Saturday.

The driver has been taken into custody, police said in a post on social media platform X.

Vancouver's Mayor Ken Sim said, "I am shocked and deeply saddened by the horrific incident at today's Lapu Lapu Day event." (This story has been corrected to fix the day to Saturday in paragraph 1)



(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill)