BEIJING — The Latest on a vehicle crash outside a primary school in China (all times local):

Chinese state media report five people have died and 18 were hospitalized with injuries from a car plowing into a crowd outside a primary school in a northeastern city. The driver was taken into custody after the crash around noon in the coastal city of Huludao in Liaoning province, said the spokesman for Jianchang county in the city's suburbs, who declined to give his name as is standard with Chinese bureaucrats. The children were crossing the street when the vehicle, identified by media as an Audi, rammed into them.A video released on social media shows chaos as the car crashes into the crowd of children. Speaking to the newspaper, an eyewitness who was driving on the road claimed to have seen loose shoes and blood on the ground after the incident.
Chinese state media report that five people are killed and 18 others are injured after a car plowed into children outside a primary school in Huludao, Liaoning, China.