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.

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".

Nine people were killed when a car drove through a crowd at a Filipino festival in the western Canadian city of Vancouver, police said on Sunday. "As of now, we can confirm nine people have died after a man drove through a crowd at last night's Lapu Lapu Festival,