Driver held after hitting pedestrians near Beijing primary school, state-run outlet reports
BEIJING — A vehicle drove into a crowd outside a Beijing primary school on Thursday and injured pedestrians, state-run China Newsweek wrote in an online post that was later deleted, citing local school and traffic authorities.
Beijing traffic police said in a statement that four people had been injured when a small passenger car 'brushed' several pedestrians in Haidian district, but did not say whether the act was intentional or whether it had occurred outside a school.
They said the driver had been detained and an investigation was under way. The municipal government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Many schools in China, a country that already has extensive surveillance systems, have increased police presence and reinforced gates since last year following a spate of similar incidents near schools and elsewhere.
Last November, an SUV plowed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in the southern city of Changde, injuring several people.
A week before that incident, in one of the deadliest attacks of recent years, a 62-year-old man upset with the division of assets in his divorce killed at least 35 people by ramming a car into a crowd at a sports center in the southern city of Zhuhai.
(Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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