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An 11-year-old boy was killed after a driver ploughed into a primary school in Melbourne, Australia.
Four children were wounded, including one who was in critical condition, when a mother collecting her child crashed her car at the fence of Auburn South Primary School just after 2.30pm.
Her passenger, a primary school aged child, was not injured, a statement from the police said.
The boy was taken to hospital with critical injuries but was later pronounced dead.
Two 11-year-old girls, a 10-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were also rushed to the emergency room with serious injuries.
A parent of a child at the school told 3AW that her son was friends with some of the children who were injured.
She said the children were at their third recess and had witnessed the crash, with parents still not knowing all the details.
An earlier caller, Julie, told 3AW ‘paramedics screamed towards (the scene) and police cars were screaming’.
‘I have never seen police and ambulance screaming past so fast,’ she added.
Another parent Lucy told 3AW her son was very distressed after witnessing the crash.
‘They’re all really, really shaken up,’ she said. ‘It’s just every person’s worst nightmare.”
The injured children had been sitting on a park bench, an unnamed Education Department official told national broadcaster ABC.
The exact circumstances surrounding the crash are being investigated by major collision investigation unit detectives.
The 40-year-old woman has since been arrested and taken in for questioning. She was making a U-turn on the road outside the school when she crashed through a fence and into an outdoor table where five children were seated.
‘It appears it is a tragic accident,’ Victoria police inspector Craig McEvoy told reporters at the scene.
He added that the collision had been tough on ambulance workers and other first responders, as well as for the school community.
Jacinta Allan, premier of Victoria, said: ‘Today should have been an unremarkable sunny Tuesday for the Auburn South Primary School community.
‘Instead, a dark shadow has been cast over our city and state.
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‘I’m sending my love and thoughts to the students, their families and the whole school community. And my thanks to the first responders on the scene.
‘I know tonight Victorians will be thinking of Auburn South Primary, and holding our kids even closer.’
Victoria’s education minister, Ben Carroll, also said he was monitoring the ‘terrible incident unfolding at Auburn South primary school’.
He added: ‘I’ll be thinking of the whole school community in the days and weeks ahead.’
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