- At least 20 people have been injured outside the Chinese sports centre
- The group was made up of ‘middle-aged and elderly people’
- A 62-year-old has been arrested following the incident
At least 20 people have been injured after an SUV drove into a group of people exercising on a sports track in China.
Video footage posted to social media showed dozens of people lying still on the ground outside the running track at Zhuhai sports centre in Guangdong province, near Macau in southeastern China.
Many of those injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise, and were attended to by other members of the public.
Witnesses told local media that the injured were made up of ‘a group of middle-aged and elderly people who were exercising on the track’, which was later surrounded by investigating cops.
‘A passenger car hit a number of pedestrians at the sports centre in Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City and drove away,’ the police said in a statement.
The cause of the incident has still not been established.
Video footage posted to social media showed dozens of people lying still on the ground outside the running track at Zhuhai sports centre in Guangdong province
The cause of the incident has still not been established
Witnesses told local media that the injured were made up of ‘a group of middle-aged and elderly people who were exercising on the track’
Many of those injured were wearing clothing built for exercise, and were attended to by other members of the public
Many of those injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise, and were attended to by other members of the public
Police have since arrested a 62-year-old man surnamed Fan in connection with the incident at the sports centre, which was built in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics and has since been used by local groups.
The sports centre said online that it had suspended sporting activities, adding that a ‘reopening time is to be determined.’
Deadly traffic accidents occur frequently in China, due to lax safety standards and widespread disorderly driving.
Six people died after a car lost control and slammed into bikes and other vehicles on a bridge in central China’s Hunan province in September.
That same month, a school bus ploughed into a crowd of people outside a middle school in eastern China, killing 11 parents and students.
And in July, police said a vehicle crashed into pedestrians in the central city of Changsha, killing eight people and injuring five.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
