Several students were injured on Tuesday (Nov 19) after a car crashed outside a primary school in central China’s Hunan province, state media said.
“Many schoolchildren were injured, the specific casualties are being investigated,” state broadcaster CCTV said.
State media did not say if the crash was deliberate.
A video circulating on Chinese social media that matched images of the school online appeared to show the aftermath of the crash, with dozens of children running in panic away from the site of the crash.
Several people, including a young child, can be seen lying on the ground.
Another showed a bloodied man being beaten by passersby as he lay on the ground next to an SUV.
Many initial videos of the incident already appeared to have been removed from China’s tightly controlled social media platforms.
The crash took place outside Yong’an primary school in the central Chinese city of Changde.
China has seen a spate of mass casualty incidents in the past week.
Last Monday, 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. CNA
