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Urgent: 5 injured as car hits pedestrians in London

Xinhua, February 26, 2017 Adjust font size:

Five people were injured as a car crashed into pedestrians in south-east London Sunday morning.

The incident prompted speculations that it might be a terrorist attack following a similar case on Saturday in Heidelbergy, Germany, where a man drove into a pedestrian area, killing one and injuring two. The attacker was shot and arrested by police in a brief standoff after fleeing the scene on foot. Endi