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CTV News
05-07-2025
- CTV News
Motorcyclist dead after South Surrey collision, police say
A Surrey Police Service vehicle is seen outside the department's headquarters. (CTV News) A motorcyclist is dead after a collision in South Surrey Saturday morning. Officers from the RCMP Surrey Police Operations Support Unit were called to the intersection of Crescent Road and 132 Street shortly before 8:45 a.m., the Surrey Police Service said in a news release. The call came from B.C. Emergency Health Services, who reported that a motorcycle and a vehicle had collided, police said. Paramedics, firefighters and police all attended the scene, but the motorcyclist – an adult man – could not be saved, according to the SPS. The RCMP SPOSU Major Crimes MVI Unit has been called in to lead the investigation, police said, adding that the cause of the collision 'remains unknown.' 'Motorists and pedestrians are asked to avoid the area of 132 Street and Crescent Road and find alternate routes while the investigation takes place,' the SPS news release reads. 'The area is likely to be closed down for several hours as officers conduct their investigation.' Police asked anyone with information, including surveillance or dash cam video, to call the SPS at 604-599-0502 and reference file number 2025-38200 (SU).
CBC
16-06-2025
- CBC
1 presumed dead, another missing following separate incidents at B.C. bodies of water
One person is presumed drowned and another is unaccounted for following two separate incidents involving bodies of water in southwest B.C. last weekend. Police in West Vancouver say a 29-year-old man is believed to have died after going missing while swimming across a lake in Cypress Provincial Park. They say B.C. Emergency Health Services and North Shore Rescue reported the man missing to the department around 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Police say the man, who was from Burnaby, was swimming across Cabin Lake with his fiancée when he "began to struggle." They say several witnesses saw the man in distress and his companion trying to help him before the man slipped beneath the surface and disappeared. A news release from the department says North Shore Rescue and West Vancouver Fire Service conducted an initial search in the water Sunday night, but were forced to suspend it as it got dark. It says another underwater search will be conducted, but police confirmed the man's family has been notified and the investigation will be turned over to the B.C. Coroners Service once the body has been recovered from the lake. Squamish crash leaves 1 unaccounted for Another person is unaccounted for after a vehicle with four occupants went into the Squamish River around 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning. A release from Squamish RCMP says three individuals were able to make it to safety, but one person is not believed to have made it out of the vehicle. Police say aerial and ground searches have not been able to locate the vehicle. Media relations officer Const. Kelly Wu says recovery efforts were paused due to current elevated water levels resulting from spring runoff. She says they will reassess recovery efforts as water levels begins to recede and visibility improves. "We do want to acknowledge that it's a very difficult time for the family and we're going to do everything we can to continue to monitor and reassess the conditions to determine when it's safe to proceed with the recovery," she said.
CTV News
08-06-2025
- CTV News
‘Tragic' boating collision under investigation in North Vancouver
First responders are seen at Cates Park in North Vancouver after a boat collision on Saturday, June 7. An investigation is underway into what first responders are calling a 'tragic accident' on the water near Cates Park in North Vancouver Saturday evening. B.C. Emergency Health Services confirmed one person was airlifted to hospital in serious condition after a boating incident at approximately 6:30 p.m. The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre told CTV News the crash involved two pleasure crafts. A coroner was on site along with police, firefighters, paramedics, the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue, but authorities have not officially confirmed any deaths. 'Our thoughts are with the families and all of those affected,' the search and rescue group wrote on social media Sunday. Just before 8:30 p.m., the North Vancouver RCMP said it was responding to a 'serious boat collision' and the Cates Park boat launch was closed for police to investigate. Mounties are yet to provide an update. On social media, District of North Vancouver Mayor Mike Little asked anyone who witnessed the incident to call the RCMP's non-emergency line.
CBC
05-06-2025
- General
- CBC
3 hospitalized, 1 critical after reported boat explosion on Vancouver Island
Three people have been hospitalized, one with critical injuries, following a reported explosion in the community of Bowser, on Vancouver Island. B.C. Emergency Health Services says they were called to the 5400 block of Deep Bay Road at 10:09 a.m. Two ground ambulances and two air ambulances responded, with one patient transported to hospital in critical condition, one in serious condition and one in stable condition.
Toronto Star
27-04-2025
- Toronto Star
‘Darkest day': 11 dead in ramming attack on Vancouver Filipino festival
VANCOUVER - A man in a vehicle raced along a street lined with food trucks at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver killing 11 people and injuring two dozen others in an attack the interim police chief called the 'darkest day' in the city's history. Deputy Chief Const. Steve Rai told a news briefing on Sunday that the death toll could rise further after the attack in which a black Audi SUV sped through a South Vancouver street crowded with hundreds of festival patrons. Witnesses have said victims were sent flying as a vehicle sped through the crowd at the Lapu Lapu Day festival just after 8 p.m. on Saturday night, and Rai said the casualties were of all ages, including 'young people.' ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW 'It's just a tragedy all around for many families,' Rai told a news conference. A 30-year-old Vancouver man was arrested at the scene and remains in custody. Rai said police have had a 'significant history' of interactions with the man. 'We've had substantive contact with him over mental health issues,' he said. While a motive is not known, he said police were confident terrorism was not involved. The suspect won't be identified until charges are laid, Rai said. The attack left bodies and debris strewn across a long section of road near Fraser Street and West 43rd Avenue. 'This is the darkest day in our city's history,' Rai said, calling the attack a 'senseless, heartbreaking act of violence.' Realtor Abigail Andiso said she saw a couple dozen people on the ground after the black SUV roared through the middle of the crowd at the festival. 'The car went just through the whole street,' she said. 'I can see straight away there's about 20 or 30, maybe 20 people down, and everyone is panicking. Everyone is screaming and nobody knows what to do.' ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW B.C. Emergency Health Services says its ambulances took 26 patients to hospital in conditions 'ranging from critical to serious.' Police said the victims were sent to nine hospitals around the Lower Mainland. Carayn Nulada said she pulled her granddaughter and grandson off the street and used her body to shield them when she realized what was unfolding. She said her daughter was clipped by the SUV. 'I saw people running and my daughter was shaking.' Nulada was in Vancouver General Hospital's emergency room Sunday looking for news about her brother, who suffered multiple broken bones. Doctors identified him by presenting the family with his wedding ring in a pill bottle and said he was stable but would need surgery. Witness Nic Magtajas described an SUV roaring through the crowd at high speed. 'I saw a bunch of people go over, go high up from the impact of hitting the car,' said Magtajas, 19. Police barricades and tape sealed off a section of Fraser Street from West 41st Avenue to 43rd Avenue and bunches of flowers were starting to pile up in tribute to the victims on Sunday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Rai said a risk assessment was conducted before the event and police had decided no heavy-vehicle barricades would be placed at the event. While Rai said he was confident that assessment was 'sound,' a review of the circumstances surrounding the planning would be conducted with the City of Vancouver. 'It goes without saying, this will change the landscape for deployment for police,' Rai said, noting they assess about 1,000 protests and 2,200 events a year. 'The system has worked up to this point.' Police said a 24-hour assistance centre had been established at the Douglas Park Community Centre, on West 22nd Avenue. 'Vancouver Police officers and victim services professionals have been deployed to help anyone who has not been able to contact a loved one who was at the Lapu Lapu (Festival),' VPD said on X. Political leaders expressed dismay at the incident, with Prime Minister Mark Carney briefly pausing his election campaign to address the attack at a news conference. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW 'Last night, families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son, a daughter,' he said in Hamilton, Ont. Carney said Canadians were shocked, devastated and heartbroken as he offered condolences to the Filipino-Canadian community and the broader communities of the Lower Mainland and Vancouver. The attack made international headlines and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he was 'completely shattered' to hear the news and expressed 'deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and to the strong and thriving Filipino community in Canada.' 'We are one with the families of the victims and the Filipino community in Vancouver during this difficult time,' he said in a statement posted to social media. King Charles said he and his wife were 'profoundly saddened' by the attack and 'send our deepest possible sympathy at a most agonizing time for so many in Canada.' 'Stay strong, our friends in Canada and the Philippines,' wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiyy in his own statement of condolence. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Lapu Lapu Day is named after an Indigenous resistance fighter in the Philippines who fought against Spanish colonization in the 16th Century. The incident is the latest horrific car attack to take place in Canada in recent years. A Quebec man is accused of killing two children and injuring six others in February 2023 when a city bus drove into a Montreal-area daycare. Four members of a Muslim family were struck and killed by a pickup truck in June 2021 in an attack a judge later deemed an act of terrorism. In Toronto on April 23, 2018, a 25-year-old man drove a rented van into mostly female pedestrians on Yonge Street, killing 11 people. — With files from The Associated Press. This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 27, 2025. Note to readers:This is a corrected story. A previous version misstated the death toll in the 2018 Toronto van attack.
