Many children injured after car crashes at school in central China: report

BEIJING: State media reported that several students were injured in a car crash outside an elementary school in central China’s Hunan province on Tuesday (November 19).

“Many students were injured, and specific victims are being identified,” state television CCTV reported.

State media did not say whether the crash was intentional.

A video circulating on Chinese social media that matched photos of the school online showed the aftermath of the disaster, with dozens of children fleeing the scene in panic.

Several people, including a small child, can be seen lying on the ground.

Another showed a bloody man being beaten by passersby as he lay on the ground next to an SUV.

Many of the initial videos of the incident appeared to have already been deleted from China’s tightly controlled social media platforms.

The accident occurred in front of Yong’an Elementary School in the central Chinese city of Changde.

Last week, a series of mass accidents occurred in China.

Last Monday, a man killed 35 people and injured over 40 he drove his car into the crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai – the country’s deadliest attack in a decade.

Police said the suspect, nicknamed Fan, was “driven by (Fan’s) dissatisfaction with the division of assets following his divorce.”

It later emerged that videos of the attack had been deleted Tightly controlled Chinese social media platforms.

And on Saturday, eight people died and 17 others were injured in a knife attack at a vocational school in eastern China.

Police said the suspect was a 21-year-old former student of the school who was supposed to graduate this year but failed his exams.

In addition to the Yixing and Zhuhai incidents, a series of other attacks took place.

In October in Shanghai, a man killed three people and injured 15 others in a knife attack in a supermarket.