Washington: One person was killed and another 17 people were injured when a vehicle struck a crowd of people in Pennsylvania, in the eastern of the United States.
Pennsylvania police said in a statement that the incident occurred last night, when a car ran over a crowd of people gathered on a street in the state city of Berwick, killing one person and injuring 17 others.
Police said the suspect was in custody and awaiting criminal charges, adding that the suspect is thought to have fatally attacked a woman in neighboring Luzerne County.
The car crashed into the crowd as they were attending an event benefiting the victims of a Nescopeck house fire that killed seven adults and three children last week, the police said.
This is not the first time that a vehicle-ramming attack has taken place in the United States, as in last November five people were killed, while 40 others were injured in an attack targeting a Christmas show in the city of Waukesha County, west of Milwaukee.
