Sorrow and fury among Vancouver's Filipinos after attack on festival

The community is reeling after 11 were killed and dozens injured by a car ramming attack on a street event.

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Eleven people - the youngest just five - died and many more were hospitalised after a man drove an SUV through the crowd.

"A lot of us are still numb. A lot of us are still angry, confused, sad, devastated - and some of us don't know how to feel, what to feel," says R. J. Aquino, chairman of Filipino B.C., the organisation which put on the festival.

He spoke at a vigil attended by hundreds of people from across the Lower Mainland on Sunday night.

"Honestly, I'm kind of all of the above right now," he adds.

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