Tokyo, May 1, 2025 (AFP) - Japanese police arrest man after car ploughs into schoolchildren

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2025-05-01

Japanese police arrested a man after they said he ploughed his car deliberately into seven primary school children in the western city of Osaka on Thursday. The children, who had been on their way home from school, were injured and rushed to hospital but all seven remained conscious. An Osaka police official, who declined to be identified, said the driver was a 28-year-old man who lives in Tokyo and gave AFP an account of what he said after his a......

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