Several people were injured after a vehicle rammed into a group of students and parents outside an elementary school in the city of Changde, in central China, Chinese state television CCTV reported today.
The incident occurred at the beginning of the school day, when the students were near Yong'an school, located in Dingcheng district.
Local authorities are investigating the incident and collecting data to determine the number of people affected and the severity of their injuries, according to CCTV.
Images circulating on social media, whose authenticity has not been confirmed, show a man being forcibly immobilized after being removed from a white SUV.
In the last year, indiscriminate attacks against passers-by have multiplied in the Asian country, generally perpetrated by assailants armed with knives, although there have also been reports of crowds being run over.
This attack comes just a week after a 62-year-old man drove a car into a group of people outside a sports center in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai, which borders Macau, causing at least one death. least 35 people and leaving 43 injured before fleeing.
Last year, another hit-and-run into a crowd of pedestrians, also in Guangdong province, caused six deaths and 29 injuries.
In February, a man killed at least 21 people in the eastern province of Shandong with a knife and gun.
In July, a 55-year-old driver plowed into a crowd in Changsha (central China), killing eight people, following a property dispute.
In September, a 44-year-old man stabbed a Japanese boy to death in Shenzhen (south). Last month, a man in his 50s stabbed five people outside a school in Beijing, including three children.
The motives are often unclear or not made public, but the local press often classifies these episodes as "revenge against society", that is, attacks in which the aggressor acts against innocent people out of frustration due to legal, sentimental or commercials.
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