Six people are dead and 26 injured - 10 seriously - after a car ploughed into a carnival crowd in Belgium this morning
The site where a car ran into a group of carnivalists in Strepy-Bracquegnies Image: Nicolas Maeterlinck via PA Images The site where a car ran into a group of carnivalists in Strepy-Bracquegnies Image: Nicolas Maeterlinck via PA Images Updated 44 minutes ago
“At this stage of the investigation, we know that a vehicle slammed into a group and that there are six dead and 26 injured, including 10 people whose life is in danger,” prosecutor Damien Verheyen told reporters at the town’s city hall. Belgian towns and villages host many street carnivals around the season of Lent, with the parades in Binche and Aalst the best known internationally.Like Binche, the carnival of Strepy-Bracquegnies involves participants dressed up as “Gilles”, extravagantly attired comical figures who are “called out” to the parade in the early hours.
Witnesses described a horrific scene of a car that apparently wilfully drove into the carnival-goers that included children. De Croo and other ministers rushed to the scene along with Belgium’s King Philippe who met first responders in the Strepy-Bracquegnies sporting hall, where the morning’s carnival procession began.
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