By Iona Cleave
A RUNAWAY car slammed into a crowd outside a busy pub in Norway tonight, injuring eight.
A mass of people were queuing outside the live music bar in the central Norwegian city of Hamar when the car hit causing “complete chaos”.
The aftermath of the scene as emergency workers rush to help the injured[/caption]
Out of the eight injured, police confirmed that three are in hospital and the other four were discharged.
The car reportedly rolled into the crowd queuing outside the Festiviteten bar and nightclub at 9.22pm this evening.
It is not yet known why the car started rolling down the hill, but the driver was not inside.
“A driverless car has rolled into the crowd outside a nightclub. No one is life-threateningly injured,” police operations manager Rune Vegard Huuse told VG news immediately after the incident.
A witness told local media that there was a broken window on the runaway car, adding to the mystery.
“The sequence of events is unclear, and there is no reason to believe that it was an intentional incident, but we cannot rule it out,” police source Mona Øverby said.
“Now there will be an investigation, so we have conducted a good number of witness interviews at the scene,” she added.
Another witness, Jørgen Trøen, told VG : “A car came very fast straight towards the queue, and then three or four people were run over. Then it was complete chaos.”
A third witness, 23-year-old Espen, said: “I was standing in the queue and didn’t notice that the car was coming towards us. I was talking to friends when the car hit.
“People started shouting and screaming. Only then did I see that there was a car on the pavement.”
Source: Runaway car rolls down hill and ploughs into crowd outside a pub injuring at least eight in Norway
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