Car ramming, knife attacks: several fatal incidents have taken place in recent weeks in China. A multiplication of incidents which sends back to the country the image of a social pressure cooker on the verge of exploding.
Dozens of panicked children running in all directions. Bodies littering the ground. These are the images circulating on the Internet of a tragedy which took place in China on Tuesday November 19, when a car hit a group of parents in front of an elementary school in Changde, a city in the Hunan region, in the center of China. country. Several children and adults were injured, but there were no deaths, reported Xinhua, China’s news agency.
The car was able to be stopped by parents and school security officers, while police apprehended the 39-year-old driver.
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Quickly, images and videos of the drama disappeared from social networks, CNN noted. Chinese articles devoted to this incident also removed the possibility of leaving comments.
The information tap was thus promptly closed by the authorities, who provided no additional details on the circumstances of this event. Nothing, in particular, about the motivations of the driver. Nor even on the fact that it was an accident or a deliberate act.
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