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A car hit a crowd of children on Thursday and injured 18 others in a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China, reported the official media.
The driver was arrested after the accident occurred around noon in the coastal city of Huludao, Liaoning Province, announced the state broadcaster CCTV.
Eighteen people were hospitalized with injuries, according to reports. The case was under investigation, according to reports.
A security camera showed a line of kids crossing the street in front of their school when a car approached, then changed lanes and drifted into the crowd of kids.
Government spokesmen, contacted by phone, said that they were not allowed to disclose information about the accident.
Although it is not clear if the accident was a deliberate attack, China has recently witnessed several such incidents.
Last month, a man armed with a knife drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in Ningbo, in the east of the country, causing two deaths and 16 injuries.
And in September, 11 people were killed and 44 hospitalized after a man deliberately drove a SUV on a square in central Hunan Province, before jumping and attacking the victims with a dagger and a shovel.
The most common motivations are mental illness, the alienation of society or the desire to settle accounts.
Other deadly attacks took place in schools, including several in 2010, during which nearly 20 children were killed, prompting senior government officials to respond and led many schools to strengthen the situation. security.
However, in June, a man used a kitchen knife to attack three boys and a mother near a school in Shanghai, killing two of the children. Last year, police announced that a man had unleashed an explosion at the entrance of a kindergarten in east China. Family members who gathered to pick up their children at the end of the day then killed eight people.
