Vancouver Police say multiple people are dead after a person drove a car through a street festival in the city’s east side.

Police say in a social media post that the driver has been taken into custody, and that multiple people have also been injured.

They say the person “drove into a crowd” at the street festival at East 41st Avenue and Fraser Street just after 8 p.m. Friday.

The Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu Day festival was under way at the time in the South Vancouver neighbourhood.