Multiple students were injured after a car crashed into people outside a primary school in central China Tuesday morning, Chinese state new agency Xinhua reported.

The casualty count was unclear and authorities are yet to clarify if the incident at Yong'an Elementary School in the city of Changde, China, was an accident or a deliberate attack

A driver in an SUV ploughed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in southern China on Tuesday, leaving several people injured, state media said, as worries spread over a spate of violent attacks in the country over the past week.