- At least 20 people have been injured outside the Chinese sports center
- The group consisted of “middle-aged and older people.”
- A 62-year-old man has been arrested following the incident.
At least 20 people were injured after an SUV plowed into a group of people exercising on a sports track in China.
Video footage posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside the athletics track at the Zhuhai sports center in Guangdong province, near Macau in southeast China.
Many of the injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise and were cared for 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’, who were later surrounded by investigating police.
“A passenger vehicle hit several pedestrians at the sports center in Xiangzhou district of Zhuhai city and drove away,” police said in a statement.
The cause of the incident has not yet been established.
A video posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside the athletics track at the Zhuhai sports center in Guangdong province.
The cause of the incident has not yet 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 the injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise and were cared for by other members of the public.
Many of the injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise and were cared for 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 center said online that it had suspended sporting activities, adding that “the reopening schedule is to be determined.”
Fatal traffic accidents occur frequently in China, due to lax safety regulations and widespread disorderly driving.
Six people died after a car lost control and crashed into bicycles and other vehicles on a bridge in central China’s Hunan province in September.
That same month, a school bus plowed into a crowd of people outside a high 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.