Six people were killed after a car crashed into a crowd of people who had gathered to attend a local carnival on Sunday morning in Strépy-Bracquegnies, near La Louvière, Belgium.
Another 10 people were sent to nearby hospitals with life-threatening injuries and 27 were “slightly injured,” Deputy Crown Prosecutor Damien Verheyen said.
As a group of carnival-goers were marching towards the town center, “a car came from the back at high speed and crashed into group, pulverized a large number of people, continuing its way before stopping a little further down,” La Louvière mayor Jacques Gobert told reporters.
The two men who were in the car, both from La Louvière and born in 1988 and 1990, were arrested, Verheyen said.
He added that a “reconstruction of the facts” will be held in order to establish the exact route of the vehicle and any potential motive.
