Man rams children with car in Japan, injuring eight

A 28-year-old man has deliberately ploughed his car into a group of primary school children in the Japanese city of Osaka, injuring eight of them, local police say.

"I was fed up with everything. I tried to run down the children and to kill them," the Kyodo news agency reported the man as saying.

The children were aged between seven and eight.

Television footage showed ambulances parked on a narrow back street with medics giving first aid to the children.

Police detained the driver on a charge of attempted murder.

All of the children were conscious on being taken to hospital.

One girl had a broken jaw.

They had just left their school when the man attacked them.

with AP