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| Six people killed after car crashes into carnival crowd in Belgium | ||
| 2022-03-21 | ||
| [LocalNews8] Six people were killed after a car crashed into a crowd of people who had gathered to attend a local carnival on Sunday morning in Strépy-Bracquegnies, near La Louvière, Belgium. Abnother 10 people were sent to nearby hospitals with life-threatening injuries and 27 were "slightly injured," Deputy Crown Prosecutor Damien Verheyen said. As a group of carnival-goers were marching towards the town center, "a car came from the back at high speed and crashed into group, pulverized a large number of people, continuing its way before stopping a little further down," La Louvière mayor Jacques Gobert told news hounds. The two men who were in the car, both from La Louvière and born in 1988 and 1990, were arrested, Verheyen said. He added that a "reconstruction of the facts" will be held in order to establish the exact route of the vehicle and any potential motive. The incident happened at 5 a.m. local time. Strépy-Bracquegnies is located 30 miles (50km) south of Brussels. 5AM?? Was everybody hammered? There was no evidence that a chase with police led to the incident, officers said, contrary to earlier reports. They also said as yet "no elements" showed that the incident "could be considered as a terrorist attack." Authorities said five emergency vehicles and 16 ambulances were sent to the scene to transport the victims to various hospitals in the region — 70 non-injured people were evacuated from the scene.
Chief prosecutor Christian Henry said the two were coming from a nightclub "and had just dropped off another person just before the events". Blood test results were expected on Monday and "will allow us to say if they have consumed drugs", he told RTBF news. "Nothing goes in the direction of radicalism or extremism," he said. "The facts have been qualified as murder but we will see what the investigation will reveal and if we should requalify the thing as manslaughter," he added.
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| #1 Six Dead, over 20 Seriously Injured After Car Ploughed Into Carnival Crowd In Belgium |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-03-21 08:32 |