Six killed after car rams into crowd in Belgium

A car drove at high speed into a group of Belgian carnival performers who were organising a parade early on Sunday, killing six people and seriously wounding 10 others, authorities have said, adding that the incident did not seem to be a militant attack.

“At this stage, there are no elements to suggest that the attack had a terrorist motive,” the prosecutor Damien Verheyen told a news conference. Police denied media reports that the car was involved in a high-speed chase.

The incident occurred in the southern Belgium village of Strépy-Bracquegnies at about 4am GMT.

The two people in the car, which was later intercepted, were detained. Police said they were local people in their 30s and were not previously known to them.