Car Strikes Crowd at China School, Killing 5 and Hurting 18

Children and adults pray during a candle-light vigil at the site of a knife attack which left two children dead in Shanghai, China on June 28, 2018. A man stabbed two boys to death outside a Shanghai elementary school on June 28, police said, one of the latest in a series of similar attacks in China in recent years. AFP/Getty Images

BEIJING—A car plowed into a crowd of children outside a primary school in northeastern China on Nov. 22, killing five people and injuring 18, a local government spokesman said.

The driver was taken into custody after the crash around noon in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning Province, said the spokesman for Jianchang county in the city’s suburbs, who declined to give his name as is standard with Chinese bureaucrats.