MELBOURNE: A car ploughed into a crowd in Australia’s second-largest city on Thursday, injuring at least a dozen people, some of them seriously, officials said. Victoria state police said they had arrested the driver of the car after it “collided with a number of pedestrians” in downtown Melbourne at a busy intersection just before 5pm local time (0600 GMT). Sky News Australia reported that a pre-school child with a head injury was taken to hospital in a serious condition. A witness, Sue, told Melbourne radio station 3AW that she heard screams and saw “people flying everywhere.”“We could hear this noise, as we looked left, we saw this white car, it just mowed everybody down,” she said. We heard thump, thump.

Source: New Strait Times December 21, 2017 07:30 UTC