BEIJING — A car plowed into a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China on Thursday, killing five people and injuring 18, a local government spokesman said. Security camera footage showed a line of children crossing the street in front of their school when a car approaches, which then changes lanes and swerves into the crowd of children. He said that rumours about the driver included that he was drunk, fleeing police or had deliberately targeted the children. Last month, a knife-wielding man drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in the eastern city of Ningbo, killing two people and wounding 16. 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.

Source: National Post November 22, 2018 06:50 UTC