Yemen’s Houthi rebels say 68 people have been killed and 47 injured in a US strike on a detention centre holding African migrants in the city of Saada.

The rebel group, which governs north-west Yemen, said the shelter was under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration and the Red Cross and targeting it “constitutes a full-fledged war crime”. The US military had no immediate comment.

The US has been conducting near-daily strikes against the Iranian-backed group since 15 March in an operation dubbed “Rough Rider”, seeking to end the threat it poses to vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis started targeting Israeli and western vessels in the Red Sea in October 2023, in what they describe as solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. The latest Houthi attack, on Saturday, targeted Israel’s Nevatim airbase with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile. The missile was shot down by Israeli defences.

Graphic footage aired by the Houthis’ al-Masirah satellite news channel in the aftermath of the strike on Sunday night showed what appeared to be dead bodies and others wounded at the detention centre.

Yemen has long been a key transit country for the people from Africa – mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia – trying to reach Saudi Arabia and Oman. One estimate claims there are more than 300,000 migrants across Yemen, a country devastated by a 10-year civil war. The Houthis allegedly make tens of thousands of dollars a week smuggling people over the border.

Monday’s alleged strike recalled a similar attack by a Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis in 2022 on the same compound, which caused a collapse, killing 66 detainees and wounding 113 others, a United Nations report later said. The Houthis shot dead 16 detainees who fled after the strike and wounded another 50, the UN said. The Saudi-led coalition sought to justify the strike by saying the Houthis built and launched drones there, but the UN said it was known to be a detention facility.

The US military has shifted tactics since the arrival of the Trump administration, which declared the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organisation in January. Since mid-March the US has mounted a much more sustained bombardment that is aimed at not only knocking out Houthi missile sties but also its political leadership, including Abdelmalek al-Houthi, the Houthi leader since 2004.

In a statement early on Monday before news of the latest strike broke, US Central command said: “To preserve operational security, we have intentionally limited disclosing details of our ongoing or future operations. We are very deliberate in our operational approach, but will not reveal specifics about what we’ve done or what we will do.”

In March, Donald Trump claimed that the Houthis – the last militant group in Iran’s self-described “axis of resistance” that is capable of regularly attacking Israel – had been “decimated” by US strikes. But he also warned: “Stop shooting at US ships, and we will stop shooting at you. Otherwise, we have only just begun, and the real pain is yet to come, for both the Houthis and their sponsors in Iran.”

The effectiveness of the US strikes is disputed and the Houthis in the past have shown an ability to withstand a bombardment by Saudi Arabian jets supplemented by British guidance.

The UK has also been more involved in the latest US military operations than any other European country. The bulk of the US strikes have been launched from USS Harry S Truman in the Red Sea, but additional strikes were carried out by USAF B-2 bombers operating from Diego Garcia, the UK base in the Indian Ocean leased to the US.

More than 750 strikes have been authorised since the decision in mid-March to raise the level of bombardment.

The Houthis for their part claim to have downed seven US Reaper drones in less than six weeks at a cost of more than $200m to the Pentagon.

The value of the US attacks on the Houthi leadership is disputed, with some claiming the movement would not be disrupted if its leader were assassinated. The Houthis are Zaydi Shia, a branch that believes that leadership should be limited to descendants of the prophet Mohammed and that leaders must fulfil specific criteria, including being recognised religious scholars.

Writing recently in the Yemen Review, Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen, a senior researcher at Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies, argued: “Without a respected local Zaidi authority figure capable of mediating or guiding the transition, the dispute would likely remain unresolved without external intervention. In this situation, Iran’s role would be key. Its political and military backing for one of the rival factions could prove decisive in shaping the group’s future direction.”

The suspect in a car-ramming attack that killed 11 people and injured dozens at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver has been charged with eight counts of second degree murder, prosecutors have said.

More charges were possible against Kai-Ji Adam Lo, 30, the British Columbia prosecution service said. Investigators ruled out terrorism and said Lo had a history of mental health issues.

Lo, a Vancouver resident, appeared in court and remains in custody, prosecutors said.

Prime minister Mark Carney met with members of the Filipino community on Sunday in the wake of the tragic event, lighting candles and laying bouquets for the victims, including at a memorial near the scene of the attack.

Just two days ahead of a national election, Carney said the attack had left the country “shocked, devastated and heartbroken”. Vancouver’s police chief, Steve Rai, described the carnage as “the darkest day” in the city’s history and told reporters it was “impossible to overstate how many lives have been impacted for ever” by the lone driver.

Some of the injured were in critical condition. As of Sunday evening authorities had not released the names of those killed, but said they were aged between five and 65.

The attack occurred shortly after 8pm on Saturday, when a man drove a black Audi SUV down a street in the city, striking people attending the Lapu Lapu Day festival. He was arrested at the scene.

Video of the aftermath showed the dead and injured along the narrow street in South Vancouver lined by food trucks. The front of the driver’s SUV was heavily damaged.

The Lapu-Lapu festival, held on a warm spring day, drew nearly 100,000 people, many of whom were families with young children. The celebration is named after Datu Lapu-Lapu, an Indigenous resistance fighter in the Philippines, who orchestrated the defeat of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in battle in 1521.

Saturday’s festival was the second annual event for the city and organisers advertised a street parade, artisans, cultural activities, a basketball tournament and local food vendors.

Carney, the Liberal party prime minister and former Bank of England governor who is favourite to win Monday’s election, paused campaigning to address the country on Sunday morning.

“Those families are living every family’s nightmare,” said a visibly emotional Carney. “I know that I join all Canadians in mourning with you. I know that Canadians are united with you.”

Carney referenced “Bayanihan”, the Filipino value of community serving those in need. “This spirit upon which we must draw in this incredibly difficult time. We will comfort the grieving. We will care for each other. We will unite in common purpose.”

Kris Pangilinan, who brought his pop-up clothing and lifestyle booth to the festival, saw the vehicle enter past the barricade slowly before the vehicle accelerated in an area that was packed with people after a concert. He said hearing the sounds of bodies hitting the vehicle will never leave him.

“And all I can remember is seeing bodies flying up in the air higher than the food trucks themselves and landing on the ground and people yelling and screaming. It looked like a bowling ball hitting bowling pins and all the pins are flying into the air.”

Carayn Nulada said that she pulled her granddaughter and grandson off the street and used her body to shield them from the SUV. She said that her daughter suffered a narrow escape.

“The car hit her arm and she fell down, but she got up, looking for us, because she is scared,” said Nulada, who described children screaming, and pale-faced victims lying on the ground or wedged under vehicles. “I saw people running and my daughter was shaking.”

Festival attenders held the suspect until police could arrive.

Video circulating on social media showed a young man in a hoodie with his back against a chain-link fence, alongside a security guard and surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him.

Police set up a 24-hour assistance centre to help anyone who had been unable to contact relatives or friends who were at the festival.

Carney cancelled his first campaign event and two major rallies on the final day of the election campaign before Monday’s vote, which has been heavily influenced by the spectre of Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada and a trade war he has launched against his country’s northern neighbour.

Vancouver had more than 38,600 residents of Filipino heritage in 2021, representing 5.9% of the city’s total population, according to Statistics Canada.

Associated Press contributed to this report

The vigil on Sunday evening drew a crowd so large that police in Vancouver had to move the crime scene barriers back so that people would not spill out on to the busy traffic along 41st Avenue.

“It’s amazing. It’s really a show of how important the Filipino community is just very broadly,” says Chelsea Brager.

Brager works with a Filipino youth organization called Anakbayan BC that helped organise a candlelight vigil on Sunday evening to remember victims of Saturday’s car-ramming attack that killed 11 people and injured dozens at a Filipino heritage festival in the Canadian city.

Earlier in the day, the nearby Anglican memorial church of St Mary the Virgin was overflowing with members of the Filipino community and others who wished to pay their respects.

Saturday had been intended as a night of celebration for the community – of resilience and of collective resistance. Lapu Lapu Day commemorates the victory in 1521 by Indigenous Filipinos, led by Lapu Lapu, against Spanish colonisers on the island of Mactan.

Members of the Black Eyed Peas had just finished their headlining set in Vancouver’s Sunset neighbourhood, home to the city’s Filipino community, when a driver tore through the crowd.

“Last night, there was a horrible tragedy that occurred at a happy event, and we’re still reeling from it,” said RJ Aquino, the chair of Filipino BC, the organisation behind Saturday’s event, at a press conference. It’s “not lost on us and the people in our team that the spirit of the festival was about resistance, resilience”, as well as courage and strength, “and we’re going to have to call that up in ourselves”, Aquino added.

Brager first knew something was wrong when they, on their way home, noticed others running away from the event. “We didn’t quite know what was happening until we saw the news when we got home,” said Brager.

“I just saw my phone kind of blow up with tons of messages,” said Maki Cairns, with Gabriela BC, a Filipino women’s movement which also helped organise the Sunday evening vigil.

Some were messaging to see if Cairns could contact loved ones they’d had trouble reaching, while others were asking if she was OK. “I remember getting people from the US messaging me as well to make sure I was OK,” Cairns said.

Cairns’ own first call was to her mother, who she was relieved to hear had not been at the event.

‘We’re going to be OK’

In Vancouver, Filipinos have deep roots and a strong sense of community, something Aquino invoked on Sunday.

“Looking at the history of our people, we’ve encountered many tragedies, and we’re going to be OK. It’s OK to not feel OK right now. It’s OK to be sad, be angry, be confused. But as we work through those feelings, we will have each other to do that,” he said.

“We’ll need to make sure to be there for each other to do that. There’s no better time to really live up to the bayanihan spirit and say that we are here to lift each other up.”

“Bayanihan” refers to a community spirit in Filipino culture, and the need to lean into bayanihan was echoed by several others on Sunday.

Brager said it applied both to the origins of Lapu Lapu Day – the collective resistance that led to the victory against the Spanish – and to the response to Saturday night’s tragedy.

Back at the church of St Mary the Virgin, attendees heard a sermon by Father Expedito Farinas, who related the biblical story of the Apostle Thomas, whom he described as being in so much despair after the crucifixion that his faith in Jesus’s resurrection was shaken. They sang hymns, took communion and shared lunch in a parish hall. Inside and outside the church, community members were seen hugging and comforting one another – sharing tears and at times laughter.

Jaela Villegas, from Migrante BC, a Filipino organization fighting for migrant worker rights in British Columbia, said the attendance at the sermon was “overwhelming in a really good way”.

“I didn’t just see my Filipino community. It was also other communities or nationalities, or even other religions. They came to support us, and so that’s very comforting,” Villegas said.

“A Palestinian earlier came up to me and said, ‘Your loss is our loss’. I think that’s so heartwarming.”

Spain and Portugal have been hit by a massive power outage that has caused blackouts, Spain’s electricity network operator has said.

The Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica said it had activated plans to restore the supply, with “all resources dedicated to solving” the disruption.

It said the Iberian peninsula, with a combined population of more than 50 million people, had been affected.

Spain’s public broadcaster RTVE said the outage had hit several regions of the country at about 12.30pm local time, leaving its newsroom, Spain’s parliament in Madrid and metro stations across the country in the dark.

People in neighbourhood WhatsApp chats in Barcelona and cities and towns in its outskirts also reported the outage.

In Portugal, a country of about 10.6 million people, the outage hit the capital, Lisbon, and surrounding areas, as well as northern and southern parts of the country.

The Portuguese distributor E-Redes said the outage was due to “a problem with the European electricity system”, according to the Portuguese newspaper Expresso.

The company said it was compelled to cut power in specific areas to stabilise the network, according to Expresso.

It was not possible to make calls on mobile phone networks, though some apps were working.

Unconfirmed news reports said the Lisbon subway had stopped running. Traffic lights in the city centre stopped working.

More details soon …

Canadians head to the polls in a federal election overshadowed by fury at Donald Trump’s threats to the country’s sovereignty and fears over his escalating trade war.

In the final days of a month-long campaign – described by all party leaders as the most consequential general election in a lifetime – the US president yet again re-inserted himself into the national discussion, with fresh threats to annex the country. “We don’t need anything from Canada. And I say the only way this thing really works is for Canada to become a state,” he told Time magazine on Friday.

Also overshadowing the final day of electioneering was a deadly attack at a bustling street festival in Vancouver that left the country reeling and forced the prime minister, Mark Carney, to briefly suspend his campaign in order to make sombre remarks to the nation.

“Those families are living every family’s nightmare,” Carney said on Sunday morning, after a driver killed at least 11 people and injured more at the Filipino community’s Lapu Lapu festival. “I know that I join all Canadians in mourning with you. I know that Canadians are united with you.”

A visibly emotional Carney spoke of “Bayanihan”, the Filipino value of community serving those in need.

“This spirit upon which we must draw in this incredibly difficult time. We will comfort the grieving. We will care for each other. We will unite in common purpose,” he added.

As recently as January, Canadian pollsters and political pundits struggled to find fresh ways to describe the bleak prospects for the then prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party, which seemed on track for a catastrophic blowout. The party trailed the rival Conservatives by as many as 27 points in some polls. The Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, was poised for the largest and most resounding electoral victory in more than half a century. That strength was the result of a laser-focused, years-long campaign to weaken the governing Liberals and the parties that supported their minority government.

But Trump’s detonation of the US’s closest diplomatic and economic relationship has fundamentally reshaped how many feel about their southern neighbour and heavily influenced how Carney, the former central banker who inherited control of the Liberal party in mid March, has shaped his electoral bid.

That framing has the possibility of producing a result that would have been unfathomable three months ago.

Now the Conservatives’ chances of an electoral victory are slim – and would require a significant polling miss and a groundswell of support in key battlegrounds.

“Almost everything about this campaign is without precedent. For the first time in Canada’s history, our closest geographic, economic and security partner has placed us in the crosshairs, disrupting our sense of economic and physical security,” said Scott Reid, a political adviser and former director of communications to the Liberal former prime minister Paul Martin.

“And then you have this unprecedented situation where Mark Carney, with no electoral experience emerges on to the scene, reverses a 26-point deficit in his party’s fortunes and takes them to the brink of a majority victory. Nothing about this that’s happened before. It’s not just that it’s unprecedented, it’s that it’s enormously consequential in all of its implications. It’s all jaw-dropping.”

Still, the prospect of a fourth consecutive Liberal term has frustrated many in the country, who see a government that was unable to rein in a cost of living crisis on the verge of retaining power.

“Ten years of a Liberal government is a long time. They had their shot. And the changes they made are for the worst. We need a new government, we need new ideas, new people and new ministers,” said Sam, who lives in a new housing development in Carney’s electoral district in Ottawa.

He said that although Carney cast himself as a novice, the Liberal leader is a “political insider,” adding: “I’m not saying he’s not a qualified person. But he’s also a businessman. So is Trump. Look how that’s turned out for everyone.”

Running on a message of change, Poilievre, a seven-term parliamentarian, has attracted thousands to his energetic rallies across Canada, and won over young voters attracted by his response to the country’s cost of living crisis.

“Canadians are asking the simple question: can we really afford to allow Mark Carney to have the fourth term of Justin Trudeau, raising exactly the same taxes, running exactly the same deficits, doubling exactly the same housing costs, with exactly the same Liberal team?” Poilievre said during a campaign stop in the city of Saskatoon, a Tory stronghold.

“There’s a generational divide in the country and real questions of whether Canadian dream is achievable any more. Poilievre was beating the drums about this and Trudeau’s popularity was plummeting. And exactly the wrong moment, we have this threat to the south of us and it completely overturned the tables in Canadian politics,” said Melanie Paradis, the president of Texture Communications and director of communications for the former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole.

“And the question is, what’s at stake? For the older generation, it’s the sovereignty and integrity of Canada. The existential threat to their future is Trump [but] the existential threat to the future of the younger generation is being able to own a home and start a family.”

That shift in political calculus puts the Conservatives in a difficult place.

“We’ve had a bizarre reversal of fortunes. We used to be so reliably strong with the older demographic – people who you could really count on to show up and vote on election day,” said Paradis. “Now we have an incredibly strong showing among young voters, but now we’ve lost the support of senior men.”

A race dominated by the two main party’s leaders is also poised to devastate smaller opposition parties, all of which have struggled to be part of a discussion focused on Canada’s economic and political responses to Trump. The New Democratic party, which previously propped up Trudeau’s minority government, is poised for its biggest-ever loss, and its leader, Jagmeet Singh, is at risk of losing his federal seat in the Burnaby South electoral district.

“Conservative attacks on the [NDP’s support for the Liberals] were highly effective in eroding trust in Jagmeet Singh. But the result was, when you see this threat from Trump, people who would have normally voted for the party are now strategically looking at the Liberals,” said Paradis.

The Green leader, Elizabeth May, is also at risk of losing her seat. A wave of patriotic sentiment, spurred by Trump, has threatened the electoral prospects of the separatist Bloc Québécois to the benefit of the Liberals.

Already, more than 7 million people have cast ballots in early voting – a 25% increase over the previous record, helped in large part by the Easter long weekend. The first polls close at 8.30pm Atlantic time, with seat-rich Québec and Ontario closing at 9.30pm eastern time, with results expected soon after.

Roman Catholic cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global church from 7 May, the Vatican said on Monday.

The date was decided during a closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, the first since the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, a source said, speaking at the end of the gathering. An official announcement followed.

About 135 cardinals, all under the age of 80 and from across the world, are eligible to take part in the conclave and decide who should be the next leader of the 1.4 billion-member church.

The 16th-century Sistine Chapel, where conclaves are held, was closed to tourists on Monday to allow for preparations for the vote.

The two most recent conclaves, in 2005 and 2013, lasted two days. But the Swedish cardinal Anders Arborelius said on Monday he expected this conclave could take longer, as many of the cardinals appointed by Francis had never met one another before.

Francis had made a priority of appointing cardinals from places that had never had them, such as Myanmar, Haiti and Rwanda. “We don’t know each other,” Arborelius said.

The earliest the conclave could have begun was 6 May. Starting it a day later means the cardinals will have slightly more time for general discussions ahead of the momentous ballot.

Francis, the pope since 2013, died aged 88 on 21 April. His funeral on Saturday and a procession through Rome to his burial place at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore attracted crowds estimated at more than 400,000 people.

The German cardinal Walter Kasper told La Repubblica newspaper that the outpouring of mourners indicated that Catholics wanted the next pope to continue with Francis’s reforming style of papacy.

Francis, the first pope from Latin America, largely tried to open up the often staid church to new conversations. He allowed debate on issues such as ordaining women as clergy and outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics.

“The People of God voted with their feet,” said Kasper, who is 92 and will not take part in the conclave. “I am convinced that we must go ahead in the footsteps of Francis.”

However, a bloc of conservative cardinals are expected to push back against this and seek a pope who reasserts traditions and restricts Francis’s vision of a more inclusive church.

Roman Catholic cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global church from 7 May, the Vatican said on Monday.

The date was decided during a closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, the first since the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, a source said, speaking at the end of the gathering. An official announcement followed.

About 135 cardinals, all under the age of 80 and from across the world, are eligible to take part in the conclave and decide who should be the next leader of the 1.4 billion-member church.

The 16th-century Sistine Chapel, where conclaves are held, was closed to tourists on Monday to allow for preparations for the vote.

The two most recent conclaves, in 2005 and 2013, lasted two days. But the Swedish cardinal Anders Arborelius said on Monday he expected this conclave could take longer, as many of the cardinals appointed by Francis had never met one another before.

Francis had made a priority of appointing cardinals from places that had never had them, such as Myanmar, Haiti and Rwanda. “We don’t know each other,” Arborelius said.

The earliest the conclave could have begun was 6 May. Starting it a day later means the cardinals will have slightly more time for general discussions ahead of the momentous ballot.

Francis, the pope since 2013, died aged 88 on 21 April. His funeral on Saturday and a procession through Rome to his burial place at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore attracted crowds estimated at more than 400,000 people.

The German cardinal Walter Kasper told La Repubblica newspaper that the outpouring of mourners indicated that Catholics wanted the next pope to continue with Francis’s reforming style of papacy.

Francis, the first pope from Latin America, largely tried to open up the often staid church to new conversations. He allowed debate on issues such as ordaining women as clergy and outreach to LGBTQ+ Catholics.

“The People of God voted with their feet,” said Kasper, who is 92 and will not take part in the conclave. “I am convinced that we must go ahead in the footsteps of Francis.”

However, a bloc of conservative cardinals are expected to push back against this and seek a pope who reasserts traditions and restricts Francis’s vision of a more inclusive church.

Two months after the actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, final autopsy results on the couple have been released.

These shed further light on the state of health of Hackman, 95, at the time when his and his wife’s bodies, along with that of one of their dogs, were found by a maintenance worker on 26 February. It is believed that Hackman died around a week after his wife, whose cause of death was hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-borne disease.

Hackman’s autopsy “showed severe atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease with placement of coronary artery stents and a bypass graft, as well as a previous aortic valve replacement,” said the report, which was obtained by Fox News Digital.

“Remote myocardial infarctions were present involving the left ventricular free wall and the septum, which were significantly large. Examination of the brain showed microscopic findings of advanced stage Alzheimer’s disease.”

According to the autopsy, Hackman had been fitted with a “bi-ventricular pacemaker” since April 2019. His estimated date of death was determined by the last recorded activity on this device, while Arakawa’s was judged to be 12 February – the last date she corresponded by email or telephone.

It is understood that Hackman might not have appreciated his wife was dead in the six days after her passing, such was the level of his dementia.

The autopsy also noted Hackman had a “history of congestive heart failure” as well as “severe chronic hypertensive changes, kidneys” and “neurodegenerative features consistent with Alzheimer’s disease”.

Early investigations ruled out death by carbon monoxide poisoning, while a necropsy report confirmed that Arakawa had died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rare rodent-borne disease.

Confusion over the circumstances of the death of Hackman, Arakawa and their kelpie mix, Zinna, has persisted since the discovery of their bodies (two other dogs were found alive and well).

Initial suspicions that they died of a gas leak or carbon monoxide poisoning were confounded by the findings that Arakawa had died of the rare respiratory condition.

Hantavirus pulmonary disease is fatal in nearly four out of 10 people who are infected, but fewer than 730 cases were identified in the US between 1993 and 2017.

Further police investigations of their grounds discovered widespread evidence of rodent infestation. Meanwhile, recently released body cam footage of the local police department’s first visit to the property suggested the couple may have struggled to keep their home under control, while a discarded plaster indicated Arakawa might have been bitten by a rodent.

Further questions have also been raised about why the couple did not have a more robust care package in place.

A university student has been rescued from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week – the second time during an attempt to retrieve his mobile phone.

The hapless climber, a 27-year-old Chinese national who has not been named, was airlifted from Japan’s highest mountain last week, only to be the subject of a second search four days later.

It emerged that he had returned to the scene of his first rescue to retrieve his phone, Japanese media reported.

The student, who lives in Japan, was found on Saturday by another off-season climber on a trail more than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) above sea level.

“He was suspected of having altitude sickness and was taken to hospital,” a police spokesperson said on Monday.

Officers later realised the same man had been lifted from the mountain by helicopter four days earlier, the broadcaster TBS said.

Media reports said the climber had returned to the 3,776-metre peak on Friday because he had left his phone and other items at the scene of his first rescue. It was unclear if he had managed to find the device.

The incident was a reminder of the dangers Fuji poses to inexperienced climbers who underestimate the challenge of traversing its steep slopes. People are urged not to hike during the off-season as conditions can quickly become treacherous.

Mount Fuji, an active volcano that most recently erupted in 1707, is covered in snow for most of the year and opens to hikers between early July and early September. Many walk partway up the mountain, while others navigate the rocky terrain through the night to watch the sunrise from the summit.

The hiking season attracts huge numbers of foreign tourists, prompting local authorities last year to cap the number of daily visitors on the most popular trail to combat overcrowding.

From this summer, hikers on Fuji’s four main trails will be charged a fee of 4,000 yen ($28/£21).

Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse

One person has died and several were injured Sunday when a boat crashed into a ferry off the Memorial Causeway Bridge in Florida and then fled the scene, authorities said.

The Clearwater police department posted on X that there were multiple injuries and the crash had been declared “a mass casualty incident” by the Clearwater Fire & Rescue Department due to the number of injuries.

All of those injured were aboard the ferry, which was carrying more than 40 people. Police did not provide any information about the person who died.

The ferry came to rest on a sandbar just south of the Memorial Causeway bridge and all patients and passengers have been removed.

Police did not immediately provide any information about the boat that fled the scene.

Authorities did not immediately provide the number of those who were hurt.

“All local hospitals have been notified. Multiple trauma alerts have been called with helicopters transporting two of the more seriously injured,” the post said.

Videos on social media showed several first responders rushing to the scene with lights flashing.

Police cautioned drivers to avoid Memorial Causeway.

The US Coast Guard and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will investigate the crash.