Teacher identified among those killed in vehicle ramming at Vancouver festival

A person places a card at a memorial for victims after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, British Columbia (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

A teacher and school counsellor has been identified as one of the 11 people killed when a driver ploughed a vehicle through a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver over the weekend.

Kira Salim worked at two schools in the New Westminster School District south-east of Vancouver, the district said in a statement.