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At least 28 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seven people have been critically injured and six are a serious condition, the LA Fire Department (LAFD) said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It said the incident occurred at 02:00 local time (09:00 GMT) near a nightclub on North Vermont Avenue, close to the intersection with Santa Monica Boulevard – which is famous for its nightlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the patients had a bullet wound, LAFD Captain Adam VanGerpen said, and eyewitnesses described hearing gunshots. “This is under police investigation,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Capt VanGerpen also said the person with the bullet wound might be the driver but added “we haven’t confirmed that yet”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictures from the scene show a grey car on a pavement with debris strewn on the ground, and a large police presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not currently clear what caused the vehicle to drive into the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The victims have all been taken to hospitals or trauma centres, Capt VanGerpen told reporters at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said that the majority of those in the crowd were women waiting to go into the nightclub.<\/p>\n\n\n\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":" BBC: At least 28 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles. Seven people have been critically injured and six are a serious condition, the LA Fire Department (LAFD) said. It said the incident occurred at 02:00 local time (09:00 GMT) near a nightclub on North Vermont Avenue, close to the intersection with Santa Monica Boulevard – which is famous for its nightlife. One of the patients had a bullet wound, LAFD Captain Adam VanGerpen said, and eyewitnesses described hearing gunshots. “This is under police investigation,” he said. Capt VanGerpen… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48595,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48593\/revisions\/48595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}