Car crashes into crowd near school in China: students injured
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In Changde, China, a car drove into a crowd of people outside an elementary school, injuring several students. The incident comes amid a recent spate of public attacks in the country.
Several students were injured after a car crashed into people outside an elementary school in central China on Tuesday morning, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. UNN reports this with reference to CNN.
Details
It is not yet known how many people were injured in the incident in Changde, Hunan province. A brief statement by state broadcaster CCTV said that "specific casualties are being investigated.
A video posted on social media shows dozens of terrified students screaming and running into the schoolyard, while a man's voice can be heard in the background shouting "quickly, quickly.
Another video showed many people, including adults, lying on the road, apparently injured. Police can be seen handcuffing a man in front of a car.
The police have not yet released a report on the incident.
Addendum
The country has been rocked by a recent spate of public attacks that have frightened a population long accustomed to low levels of violent crime. Last Monday, China suffered its deadliest attack in a decade when 35 people were killed after a man drove a car into a crowd of people exercising in an open area in the southern city of Zhuhai. A few days later, eight people were killed and 17 others injured in an attack on a college campus in eastern China.
