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Police shoot driver dead after car rams crowd in Chinese city, killing six

Posted at 9:49 PM, Mar 21, 2019
and last updated 2019-03-21 23:49:08-04

Six people were killed Friday after a car drove into a crowd in central China’s Hubei province.

The incident occurred around 6 a.m. local time in Zaoyang city.

Seven other people were hospitalized in what police described as a “malicious car incident,” according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Following the crash, police shot dead the driver of the car, CCTV reported.