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

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Vancouver 's Lapu Lapu festival meant to be a celebration of Filipino pride ended in a wail of sirens and screams.

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

"Some of us don't know how to feel, what to feel," said R.J. Aquino , chairman of Filipino B.C. organisation that put on the festival.

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