- Chinese media reported that a detailed number of infections was not available.
- The accident occurred over the course of a week after the driver rammed the car into a crowd of people.
- Five people, including a student, were lying on the path taken by the car.
BEIJING: An SUV driver ran over students and pedestrians outside a primary school in southern China on Tuesday, injuring several people, state media reported, as concerns spread about a spate of violent attacks in the country over the past week.
CCTV Other state media reported that the car hit people outside a primary school in Changde city, Hunan province, as students were arriving for the day.
Many were injured CCTV I mentioned. A detailed number of injuries was not available, and it was not immediately clear what caused the accident or whether it was intentional.
Reuters He was unable to contact emergency services by phone so Changde could get a comment.
The accident occurred just over a week after a driver plowed his car into a crowd of people at a sports center in Zhuhai, southern China, killing 35 people and seriously wounding 43 others in the deadliest mass attack China has seen in a decade.
Short videos circulated on Chinese social media on Tuesday showed young children running into the Changde school complex, shouting “help.”
One clip shows a small white SUV parked behind the school entrance. Video clips showed that at least five people, including a student carrying a backpack, were lying on the path the car took in the narrow street in front of the school.
Someone can be heard shouting “call the police” as the man was surrounded by a crowd of people and appeared to be beaten with sticks and rods.
A separate clip shows a man handcuffed and pinned to wet cement by a figure wearing a military uniform. A woman’s voice says that the person drove to the school himself and crashed there.
Reuters I was able to verify that the location where the videos were filmed matched the reported location of the incident that occurred at a primary school for children between the ages of 6 and 12 years old.
One commentator on the social media platform Weibo said: “Why do such incidents occur repeatedly recently, in which hit-and-run incidents occur frequently, and students are always involved in them? What has happened to society now?”