He drove his car into the crowd. Many people were injured.
The man drove his car into a crowd of people in front of an elementary school. Many of the injured included children and their parents. According to preliminary information, there were no deaths. The perpetrator's motive is not yet known. The driver was detained by witnesses and handed over to police.
The incident happened a few minutes ago. 8 a.m. local time (before midnight in Poland on Monday to Tuesday nights) in front of an elementary school in the central Chinese city of Changde. For unknown reasons, an SUV driver plowed into a crowd in front of an elementary school in Hunan province.
China. he drove his car into the crowd in front of the school
State media has stressed that this is likely to happen again in the country in the coming days. According to a report in Nanfang Daily, a daily newspaper on Weibo (China's version of X), “approximately 89 people, including students and their parents, were hit by cars.''
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State television CCTV reported that the injured were taken to hospital. For now, it is unclear whether the driver acted intentionally or if it was just an unfortunate accident.
Witnesses said the driver of the SUV was apprehended by parents and school security personnel at the scene of the incident, and then handed over to police.
An accident that occurred in China. many dead
This is the third similar incident in China in recent days. On Saturday, November 16, a knife attack on a campus in Yixing, near Wuxi, Jiangsu province, eastern China, left eight people dead and 17 injured.
Then, just days earlier, on the night of November 11, a 62-year-old man drove his car into a crowd in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, killing 35 people and injuring more than 40.
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