Eleven people were killed and tens injured After a man plowed a car in a crowd of people in a street festival in Vancouver on Saturday evening.
A 30 -year -old man from Vancouver was arrested on the scene, police saying that he had history of mental health problems. A 30 -year -old man was charged with multiple murder leaders as part of the incident.
There was no early indication of an attack on the attack on the Lapu Filipinus festival of Vancouver's Lapu, but the police said it was not a terrorist attack. The suspect, Kai-Ji Adam Lo, “has important history of interactions with the police and health professionals related to mental health,” said Vancouver's acting police chief Steve Rai.
Here we look at other major attacks where the car has been used as a weapon. Some have proven to be linked to terrorism and extremism, while others have been attributed to mental illness.
Germany is the most recent target
Two people died on February 13 after being injured in a car reduction attack on a union demonstration in Munich.
Some 39 people were injured in the attack and the police arrested a 24 -year -old Afghan national who came to Germany as a asylum seeker. Prosecutors said he seemed to have had an Islamic extremist motive.
On December 20, 2024, at least five people were killed and more than 200 were injured when a car struck a Christmas market in Magdeburg in eastern Germany.
Police arrested a 50 -year -old doctor from Saudi Arabia who had given up Islam and supported the far -right AFD part.
In June 2022, a 29 -year -old man led his car to a crowd of people in Berlin, killing a person and injuring dozens. Police identified the driver as a 29-year-old German-Armenian man.
2017, a year of high -level attacks
Indicatively, the car stroke was not a method of choice for mass-box attacks for several years before the tip in Germany in recent years. However, the period between 2016 and 2017 was dotted with vehicle attacks against pedestrians, mainly in the United Kingdom.
In August 2017, a man struck a van in the people of Boulevard Las Ramblas occupied in Barcelona, killing 14 and injuring others. The so-called Islamic State group claimed responsibility. Several members of the same cell led a similar attack in the seaside resort near Cambrils, killing a person.
Two attacks took place a few days apart in June 2017 in the British capital. On June 19, Darren Osborne, a man radicalized by extreme right ideas, led a van in the faithful outside a mosque in the Finsbury park, killing a man and injuring 15 people. Osborne was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Before Osbourne's attack, three attackers led a van in pedestrians in London Bridge on June 3 of the same year before stabbing people in the neighboring district. Eight people were killed and the attackers were killed by the police.
On March 22, 2017, a British man, Khalid Masood, struck a SUV in people on the Westminster bridge in London, killing four, then stabbed a police officer keeping the houses of the Parliament. Masood was shot.
'No training, no specific skills'
In Berlin, a challenge attack in December 2016 saw Anis Amri, an asylum seeker rejected from Tunisia, plowed a truck diverted in a Christmas market in the German capital, killing 13 people and injuring dozens. The striker was killed a few days later during a shooting in Italy.
ADVERTISEMENTIn neighboring France, the French resident of Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel led a truck rented for almost 2 kilometers along a walked seaside walk in the Riviera French Riviera Resort in this kind of Bastille Day, on July 14, 2016, killing 86 people in the deadliest attack of the genre. He was killed by police, but eight other people were sentenced to prison for helping to orchestrate the attack.
In particular, the first large-scale attack of this type in recent decades has taken place in the Netherlands: on April 28, 2009, the former security guard Karst Tates led a car to parade spectators at an event in Apedoorn, in order to hit a high bus high carrying members of the Dutch royal family. Six people were killed and Tates died of injuries the next day.
Rand, a reflection group on global non -profit policy, published a report in 2021 examining the increase in attacks using vehicles for the European Commission. “This tactic requires little or no training, no specific skills and has a relatively low risk of” “” early detection “” he said. According to Rand, Europe and the United States represent almost three-quarters of the attacks.
The attacks led the authorities of the city through Europe to install concrete barriers around public spaces, in particular terminals, benches and flower planters.
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