A driver in the Chinese city of Guangzhou was caught on camera Wednesday plowing into pedestrians on a busy street, killing five people and injuring more than a dozen.
A video circulating online shows pedestrians crossing a busy intersection during rush hour traffic. A black SUV appears, hitting several people before crashing into a highway fence and driving away.
FILE: Bouquets of flowers, sent by citizens to mourn the victims, are seen on January 12, 2023, in Guangzhou, China.
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Police have arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the incident and have launched an investigation, BBC News reported. His identity has not been revealed.
Some eyewitnesses at the scene believed the act to have been intentional. One person told local outlet Hongxin News that the driver “pushed the car against [the pedestrians] malevolently. After that, she did a U-turn and hit people again.”
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Another video circulating on Chinese social media shows the driver appearing to throw handfuls of cash out of the window shortly before getting out of his car.
Condolences for the victims flooded Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. Users surmised that the victims could have been a delivery man trying to make a living or a “father who wanted to go home and have dinner with [his] children.”
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A similar incident occurred in February 2022, when an individual drove a mini-truck into a crowd of people in the Chinese province of Fujian, killing three people and injuring nine.
