The accident caused widespread public outrageand many accuse the man of deliberately attacking people.
Videos posted on social media show the driver getting out of the car and throwing bills in the air, shortly after the accident.
the police stopped the 22 year old man and opened an investigation.
The accident occurred this Wednesday during the afternoon rush hour at a busy intersection in Rome the southern city of 19 million people.
“He deliberately drove into people who were waiting for traffic lights. He maliciously rammed the car. After that, he did a U-turn and hit people again‘ a witness told local media Hongxin News.
“I wasn’t driving too fastbut some people couldn’t escape in time because they wouldn’t have noticed that I was deliberately hitting people.”
Reportedly, the man he also ran over a policeman traffic policeman and his motorcycle, but the officer managed to escape.
A widely circulated clip shows it a girl lying on the ground at the scene of the accident, while a woman who is said to be his mother can be seen crying next to him.
Another witness described the chaos of the aftermath in Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. The person said that an hour after the incident, the site was down full of ambulances and police of transit “and they hadn’t moved all the wounded and the bodies of the place”.
“The scene was too tragicoh I couldn’t bear to see her I felt so sad I wanted to throw up every time I heard the ambulance siren,” she said.
The incident sparked public angerwith many expressing regret that it happened in the run-up to Chinese New Year, a time of family reunions.
“The victims could be a girl who dressed meticulously for a date… It could be a delivery man who earned five yuan after placing an order in a hurry. It could be a father who wanted to go home and have dinner with his children It could be could be a happy kid shopping,” wrote one Weibo user.
Many noted that the man was driving a luxury car and I had thrown money in the airand they asked him if he came from a rich and powerful family.
The incident quickly turned into trending on weibo, but strangely then it disappeared from the “hot searches” list, leading users to accuse the platform of censorship.
Source: BBC
Source: Clarin
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