At least 20 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Seven people have been critically injured, six are seriously injured and 10 are in a fair condition, the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) said.<\/p>\n
Paramedics discovered that one of the patients had a bullet wound, LAFD Captain Adam VanGerpen said.<\/p>\n
“This is under police investigation,” he said, before adding “this will be a large investigation with the LAPD”.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at 02:00 local time (09:00 GMT) in East Hollywood and the LAFD said 124 fire personnel helped at the scene. <\/p>\n
Pictures from the incident show a grey car on a pavement with debris strewn on the ground, and a large police presence.<\/p>\n
The location of the incident given by the LAFD is near a music venue. <\/p>\n
It is not currently clear what caused the vehicle to drive into the crowd.<\/p>\n
The people affected have all been taken to hospitals or trauma centres, Capt VanGerpen told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n
He said that the majority of those in the crowd were were women waiting to go into a nightclub.<\/p>\n
“It was a very chaotic scene,” Capt VanGerpen said, adding that “a lot of bystanders by the club came out to help people”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 20 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Santa Monica Boulevard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-8107","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}