Moments of terror this morning outside an elementary school in Changde , in the Chinese province of Hunan, where an SUV ran over several students outside an elementary school , the state-run CCTV network reported. State media did not specify whether the accident was deliberate, but videos posted on social media, which matched online images from the school, showed tragic scenes, with children running in panic from the scene of the accident and others lying on the asphalt. In one clip, there is a bloodied man being beaten with sticks by passers-by as he lies on the ground next to an SUV.

China has seen a series of fatal accidents in recent months , in developments that are rare for a country with a strong reputation for public safety. This is the third violent incident in China, a week after 35 people were killed in a speeding car crash near a sports center in Zhuhai and eight people were killed in a school stabbing in Wuxi. On Monday, a man killed 35 people and injured more than 40 after plowing his SUV into a crowd in Zhuhai.

On Saturday, eight people were killed and 17 injured in a knife attack at a vocational school in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. Police said the suspect was a 21-year-old former student who was supposed to graduate this year but had failed his exams. In October, a man stabbed three people to death and injured 15 others at a supermarket in Shanghai.

(Unioneonline/vf)

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