A man drove a vehicle into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20 others, in what authorities described as a car ramming attack that shook the country ahead of a federal election.

Eleven people are dead after a man allegedly plowed his car into a crowd at a cultural festival in Vancouver, Canada. Reports say the victims range in age from 5 to 65. It happened at a Filipino festival around 8pm Saturday night.

At least 11 people were killed when a man drove through a crowd at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver on Saturday evening, Canadian police said.