Tokyo: A car ploughed into a group of kindergarten children in western Japan’s Shiga region, killing two toddlers and injuring others, police said.
Police said the car veered onto the pavement after making “contact” with another larger vehicle that was turning at a junction in Otsu City yesterday.“The car rammed into a group of 13 nursery schoolchildren and three teachers who were walking on the pavement,” the police said in a statement.
A police spokesman said some of the rest of the group suffered injuries, but did not give further details. The children and their teachers were on the pavement near a crossing when the small vehicle crashed into them. Japanese nursery schools regularly take children to the local park for playtime or out on short excursions during the day.
“We’re very shocked and terribly saddened by this ghastly accident,” the company operating the nursery said in a statement on its Facebook page.Footage on local media in the aftermath of the accident showed that one car had veered up off the road and onto the pavement.Police have arrested the drivers of both cars – a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman. — AFP
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