2 dead as car hits group of schoolchildren in Japan's Kyoto

SINA Monday 23rd April, 2012

OSAKA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- At least two people were killed and eight children were injured after a car rammed into a group of schoolchildren in the western Japanese prefecture of Kyoto on Monday morning, local press reported. The accident happened at around 8 a.m. local time on a local road in Kameoka City of the prefecture, when an 18-year-old man drove a light vehicle on the sidewalk and hit the children walking in a group on their way to an ...

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