Driver held after hitting pedestrians near Beijing primary school, state-run outlet reports

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OSAKA--A man suspected of attempting to murder schoolchildren showed no signs of braking or slowing down when the vehicle he was driving plowed into the pupils, police said.

Driver held after hitting pedestrians near Beijing primary school, state-run outlet reports

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.

There have been a series of indiscriminate car-ramming incidents in China. The Chinese Communist Party officially confirmed that a car-ramming incident occurred at the gate of a primary school in Beijing on Thursday (May 15). The official said the driver has been detained. The number of casualties is currently unknown.