Video posted on social media showed victims and debris strewn across a long stretch of road. A black SUV with a crumpled front section could be seen in still photos.

This is the darkest day in our city's history.”Those words came from Vancouver Interim Chief Constable Steve Rai on Sunday as he updated reporters on a deadly car-ramming attack at a Filipino community festival that also left dozens injured.

As we've been reporting, the incident happened during the Lapu Lapu Day festival. Vardeh tells BBC World Service’s Weekend programme that the final live performance of the day, the main event, had just finished when a car drove through a narrow street lined with food trucks, including his, "completely straight, right through the crowd".