Man drives car into primary school children in southern Chinese city of Changde, injuring several
The incident comes a week after a car ramming in another southern Chinese city killed 35 people and injured dozens.
In short:
Several people were injured after a 39-year-old man drove into a crowd of children and adults outside of a primary school in southern China.
Chinese police have arrested a man and investigations are continuing.
What's next?
The driver has been arrested and an investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Chinese police have arrested a man and investigations are continuing after a driver ploughed into primary school students and pedestrians in southern China, leaving several people injured.
Students were arriving for classes around 8am at Yong'an Elementary School in the city of Changde when a small white SUV drove into a crowd of children and adults.
Police in the city's Dingcheng district, where the school is located, issued a statement saying there were no life-threatening injuries. Police identified the driver as a 39-year-old man surnamed Huang, who is under detention, and said the incident was under investigation.
Video footage from the incident showed children running into the Yong'an primary school after a car rammed into a crowd.
The lack of details released about the incident reflects China's reflexive inclination to suppress news about crime, protests, and major accidents that could erode public confidence in the ruling Communist Party's self-declared ability to maintain social order.
Video clips circulating on Chinese social media on Tuesday showed young children running into the school compound while calling for help. They also appeared to show a man surrounded by a crowd being beaten with sticks and rods.
China's top prosecutors met on Tuesday to discuss sentencing for "major vicious and extreme crimes," as well as those that endanger public security, a statement from the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on its official Weibo social media account.
"The hand of 'strictness' can never be loosened," said Ying Yong, procurator-general, in the post, one of the top five trending topics on the social media platform.
"We must be resolute and determined and punish crimes severely and quickly in accordance with the law to provide a strong deterrent."
Spate of violence in China
While China has much lower rates of violence than many countries, there has been a string of recent attacks by people armed with knives or using vehicles as weapons.
A stabbing attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi on Saturday left eight people dead and 17 others injured.
That came shortly after a man drove his car into people at a sports facility in the southern city of Zhuhai, leaving 35 people dead and 43 others in the deadliest attack in China in a decade.
In September, three people were killed in a knife attack in a Shanghai supermarket, and 15 others were injured. Police said at the time that the suspect had personal financial disputes and came to Shanghai to "vent his anger. In the same month, a Japanese schoolboy died after being stabbed on his way to school in the southern city of Shenzhen.
The Chinese government generally censors internet content it deems overly sensitive or political, and some images of the car ramming in Changde were quickly taken down.
Most Western social media sites and search engines like Google are blocked in China, limiting available content even while some people use tools like VPNs and send news through Chinese social media before the censors have time to catch it.
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