Chinese car crushes children in front of Chinese school in Huludao, Liaoning Province

Pekin – A car on Thursday hit a crowd of children and injured 18 others in a crowd of children in front of a primary school in northeastern China, a local government spokesman said.

The driver was arrested after the accident around noon in the coastal town of Huludao, Liaoning Province, said Jianchang County spokesman in the suburbs of the city, who refused to give his report. name, as the Chinese bureaucrats do.

He described the accident as "a major road accident" and said the case was under investigation.

Video security camera showed a line of children crossing the street in front of their school when a car approached, who then changed lanes and deported to the crowd of children.

It was unclear whether the accident was a deliberate attack or whether the driver was moving apart to avoid obstacles in front of him, but this comes after an accident. series of vehicle attacks and attacks on schoolchildren in the country.

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.

Other deadly attacks took place in schools, including several in 2010, during which nearly 20 children were killed, prompting the highest government officials to respond and led many schools to enhance 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, the police said that a man had set off a explosion at the entrance of a children's garden In east China, family members gathered to pick up their children at the end of the day, killing eight people.

The most common motivations for attackers are mental illness or the alienation of society and the desire to settle their scores.