A car has ploughed into a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China, killing five people and injuring 18, state media reports.
The driver was taken into custody after the crash around midday local time on Thursday in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Eighteen people were taken to hospital with injuries, the reports said. The cause was under investigation, according to the reports.
Security camera footage showed a line of children crossing the street in front of their school when a car approaches, then changes lanes and swerves into a crowd of the children.
Government spokesmen reached by phone said they were not authorised to release information about the crash.
While it wasn't clear if the crash was a deliberate attack, China has recently seen a number of such incidents.
Last month, a knife-wielding man drove a vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians in the eastern city of Ningbo, killing two people and wounding 16.
And in September, 11 people were killed and 44 injured after a man deliberately drove a 4WD into people at a plaza in the central province of Hunan, before jumping out and attacking victims with a dagger and shovel.
The most common motivations are identified as mental illness, alienation from society or a desire to settle scores.
