A car plowed into a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China on Thursday, killing five people and injuring 18, state media reported.
The driver was taken into custody after the crash around noon in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Eighteen people were hospitalized with injuries, the reports said. The cause was under investigation, according to the reports.
Security camera footage showed a line of children crossing the street in front of their school when a car approaches, then changes lanes and swerves into a crowd of the children.
Government spokesmen reached by phone said they were not authorized to release information about the crash.
While it wasn’t clear if the crash was a deliberate attack.
