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Collective trauma after festival attack could ripple for months, experts say

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Eleven people were killed and dozens more were injured when a vehicle sped through a crowded street lined with food trucks at the Lupa Lupa Day festival in Vancouver last weekend .

Mental health experts say collective trauma can lead to anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder.

If unaddressed, grief may turn inward and become a much more serious mental health problem than it ever needs to be, experts say.

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