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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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There have been a number of fatalities when a car was driven at high-speed into festivalgoers in the Canadian city of Vancouver. Also: a human chain helps a Michigan bookshop owner move her stock to a new home.
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0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service. |
0:06.2 | I'm Bernadette Keough and in the early hours of Monday the 28th of April, these are our main stories. |
0:12.5 | Canadian police say a man arrested after a car was rammed into festival goers in Vancouver, |
0:18.2 | killing 11 people, suffered mental health problems. Israel has carried out |
0:23.1 | its first air strike in about a month on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. |
0:29.3 | The authorities in southern Iran have announced three days of mourning for dozens of people |
0:34.5 | who died in a massive explosion at the country's biggest commercial port. |
0:41.1 | Also in this podcast, |
0:43.1 | A heartwarming story, residents of a small town in the US state of Michigan, |
0:53.4 | form a human chain to help a bookshop owner move thousands of items to new premises further down the street. |
1:04.5 | Police in Canada have described an incident that is now known to have killed 11 people at a Filipino street festival as a car |
1:12.9 | ramming attack. More than 20 people were injured in the incident on Saturday in Vancouver. An |
1:19.1 | investigation is ongoing. The driver, a man in his 30s, was arrested at the scene. Yusuf Varday was |
1:26.4 | selling buns from a food truck at the festival when |
1:29.2 | the attack happened. I barely made it like maybe 20 feet and I just saw just in that small |
1:35.4 | amount of space, how much devastation there was. We're talking bodies were underneath food trucks |
1:40.5 | that were hit by the car and people crying know, people crying over their loved ones, |
1:44.4 | like within 20 feet of me. |
1:46.0 | Police say they're not treating the incident as an act of terrorism. |
1:50.5 | Addressing the nation, the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, said he was devastated and |
1:55.6 | heartbroken and sent this message of unity. |
1:58.4 | The strength and the resilience of the Filipino-Canadian community |
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