Two people are dead and 10 others are injured after a truck drove through a field where a children\u2019s soccer game was taking place in the US state of Kansas on Saturday morning local time.<\/p>\n
A six-year-old boy and 35-year-old man were killed at the scene.<\/p>\n
The injured include two children aged 5, two aged 8, a \u20609-year-old and five adults, while an 11th person was hospitalised for non-traumatic medical issues.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n All other injuries are confirmed to be traumatic but non-life-threatening according to Wichita Police.<\/p>\n The driver of the truck is confirmed to be a 34-year-old woman who had a child attending a game at the same soccer complex.<\/p>\n Two minors were passengers in the vehicle at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n \u201cWe \u2060know what happened, but now we\u2019re working very hard to find out why it happened, and we\u2019re not there yet,\u201d Wichita police Chief Joe Sullivan said.<\/p>\n The woman remains in custody but police did not confirm if she had been charged.<\/p>\n First responders have cleared the area of any further public threat.<\/p>\n Mayor Lily Wu issued a statement on Facebook advising people to avoid the area during the investigation and declaring her heartbreak.<\/p>\n \u201cToday is a heartbreaking day for Wichita,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cFamilies came to Stryker Sports Complex to enjoy a Saturday afternoon, watching their children play soccer and no one could have imagined the tragedy that would unfold.<\/p>\n \u201cMy thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected, especially the children and families involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and 10 others are injured after a truck drove through a field where a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-932399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}