Car crashes into people outside primary school in central China: state media

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1Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China on Tuesday morning, state news agency Xinhua reported.

2Authorities have not said how many people were injured in the incident, which took place in Hunan province’s Changde city. 3A 39-year-old male suspect was arrested and the incident remains “under further investigation,” according to a local police statement.

4The injured were sent to the hospital for treatment and “none were in life-threatening condition so far,” said the police report, which was released hours after the incident.

5Video circulating on social media and geolocated by CNN showed dozens of panicked school children screaming and running into the schoolyard, with a man’s voice heard yelling “quickly, quickly,” in the background.

6Another showed multiple people, including adults, lying on the road, apparently injured. 7Police could be seen handcuffing a man in front of a vehicle.

8Images circulating online of the incident were quickly wiped from social media platforms, while comments sections on posts related to the incidents were disabled.

9CNN called the local police station but the person who answered didn’t respond to questions.

10The incident comes just over a week after China saw its deadliest known attack in a decade, when 35 were killed after a man plowed his car into crowds exercising at an outdoor sports center in the southern city of Zhuhai.

11Days later, eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a mass stabbing on a college campus in eastern China on Saturday.

12Related article 35 killed after driver plows car into crowds at sports center in China’s deadliest known attack in a decade

15High-profile attacks in recent months have rattled a population long used to low rates of violent crime. 16Censors have scrambled to remove videos posted to social media and moderate online discussion to minimize any perception of social instability.

17The sudden episodes of violence, apparently targeting random members of the public, including school children, however, have surged across the country as economic growth stutters.

18Many online have taken to warning each other to be cautious as people are becoming more desperate and unstable – and taking “revenge against society.”

19Social media users voiced similar concern Tuesday, with some commenting on a since-deleted post that “so many people are taking revenge on society these days” and expressing disgust that some would “target kids to get back at society.”

20Other recent incidents include a stabbing attack near an elementary school in Beijing in October, which injured five people, including three children.

21In September, three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a suburban supermarket in Shanghai.

22Also in September, a bus crashed into a crowd of students and parents outside a school in Tai’an city in Shandong province, killing 11 people and injuring 13 others. 23The authorities did not reveal whether it was accidental or deliberate.

24CNN’s Joyce Jiang contributed to this report.

from CNN