Three stabbed at festival in Vancouver's Chinatown: VPD
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Three people are in hospital after they were stabbed at the Light Up Chinatown festival in downtown Vancouver Sunday evening.
Three people are in hospital after they were stabbed at the Light Up Chinatown festival in downtown Vancouver Sunday evening.
According to the Vancouver Police Department, the triple stabbing happened just before 6 p.m. near the festival’s stage at Columbia and Keefer streets.
The festival-goers’ attacker was a stranger to them, and his motive is currently unknown, the VPD said.
Police said they arrested a 60-year-old man who is currently being held in jail.
BC Emergency Health Services told CTV News that five ambulances were sent to the scene and the three victims were taken to hospital in stable condition.
Mayor Ken Sim issued a statement in response to the violence.
“Every single person who lives in or visits our city has a right to feel safe. To see individuals physically harmed by such senseless violence is heartbreaking,” he wrote Sunday night.
