Toronto Van Attack: Coming to Terms with a Tragedy

Torontonians cope with the horror of the senseless van attack as a community

People pay their respects to the victims of the van attack at a makeshift memorial site at Olive Square in Toronto on April 24, 2018. Lingxi Zheng/The Epoch Times

TORONTO—A speeding van plowing into a crowd of unsuspecting pedestrians is a scene you would expect in a Hollywood thriller, not in real life. Not in your own backyard.

With the nation still reeling from the tragic loss of 16 people in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan earlier this month, another tragedy struck—the van attack in Toronto on Monday, April 23, which claimed the lives of 10 and left more others injured.