Car ploughs into kindergarten kids in Japan, several injured (Updated)


An aerial view shows the site where a car involved in an accident with another vehicle skidded into a group of nursery school children on a sidewalk, in Otsu, western Japan May 8, 2019, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS.

TOKYO (AFP): A car ploughed into a group of more than 10 kindergarten children in western Japan’s Shiga region on Wednesday leaving at least four of them critically injured, police and reports said.

There was no immediate detail on why the car veered off the road into the group of children in the city of Otsu.

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