At least five people have died and more than thirty have been injured following a driver ran his vehicle over a crowd celebrating a carnival party in the Belgian town of Strépy-Bracquegniesmunicipality of La Louvière, in the southeast of the country.
The event took place around 05:00 (local time) and the first report provided by the mayor of the municipality, Jacques Gobertspeaks of at least five deaths, 12 seriously injured and twenty wounded.
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“The car crashed at high speed into a crowd and the driver tried to escape from the scenebut it was intercepted”, explained the mayor in statements collected by the Belgian media ‘La Libre’. The Police will shortly give a press conference to clarify the circumstances of the incident.
