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A 39-year-old man has been taken in custody after police said he crashed a car outside a primary school in Changde city, Hunan, injuring multiple children.
China has witnessed a spate of deadly incidents in recent months -from mass stabbings to car rammings – with some despairing about why an increasing number of people seem willing to “take revenge” on random civilians.
Xinhua news agency said “multiple students were injured.”
Police in Changde, home to over five million people, said students were arriving at around 8am at Yong’an Primary School when a white SUV drove into a crowd of children and adults.
The driver was subdued by parents and security guards and some of the injured were immediately sent to the hospital, Xinhua said.
It said a man surnamed Huang was being held in custody, adding that the injuries sustained by the victims were not life-threatening.
Footage circulating on social media appeared to show dozens of children running in panic away from the site of the crash, yelling “help, help!”
In one clip, several people including a young child can be seen lying on the ground. Another showed a bloodied man being hit with sticks by passersby shouting “beat him!” as he lay on the ground next to an SUV.
China has this year seen a string of mass casualty incidents.
Last week a man killed 35 people and wounded more than 40 more when he rammed his car into a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai – the country’s deadliest attack in a decade.
A stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern city of Wuxi on Saturday left eight people dead and 17 others injured. In September, three people were killed in a knife attack in a Shanghai supermarket, where 15 others were injured.
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