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Five children dead after driver crashes into group crossing road in China
Five children died and 18 were injured after a car ploughed into a group crossing a road outside a primary school in northeast China on Thursday, Chinese media reported.
According to surveillance camera footage posted online by Global Times, the motorist was driving on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle hit the group of about 30 children, throwing some of them into the air. The video was later taken down.
The motorist fled the scene but was later detained. Beijing Time, an online news outlet owned by Beijing Radio and Television Network, quoted local police as identifying the suspect as Han Jihua, the son of the Communist Party boss of Qingniushan village in Jianchang county.
Clips posted by witnesses also showed children lying on the road.
An employee at the school said the students were crossing the road during a lunch break.
“There were about a dozen or so [injured], some had severe injuries while others were less severe,” Beijing Youth Daily quoted the staff member as saying.
Another witness said they saw ambulances and police cars rush to the scene, as well as children’s shoes and blood on the ground.
A police investigation is under way.
Five children dead after driver crashes into group crossing road in China
Five children died and 18 were injured after a car ploughed into a group crossing a road outside a primary school in northeast China on Thursday, Chinese media reported.
- 18 children injured during lunch break in country’s northeast
- Police detain suspect who fled the scene, Chinese media report
According to surveillance camera footage posted online by Global Times, the motorist was driving on the wrong side of the road when the vehicle hit the group of about 30 children, throwing some of them into the air. The video was later taken down.
The motorist fled the scene but was later detained. Beijing Time, an online news outlet owned by Beijing Radio and Television Network, quoted local police as identifying the suspect as Han Jihua, the son of the Communist Party boss of Qingniushan village in Jianchang county.
Clips posted by witnesses also showed children lying on the road.
An employee at the school said the students were crossing the road during a lunch break.
“There were about a dozen or so [injured], some had severe injuries while others were less severe,” Beijing Youth Daily quoted the staff member as saying.
Another witness said they saw ambulances and police cars rush to the scene, as well as children’s shoes and blood on the ground.
A police investigation is under way.