UK: Six hurt as car ploughs into Eid crowd

Six people, including three children, were injured when a car mounted a kerb and ploughed into a crowd of people outside a sports centre in Newcastle. It happened outside Westgate Sports Centre where an event was taking place to celebrate the end of Ramadan. Two children are in intensive care and one adult is seriously […]

Six people, including three children, were injured when a car mounted a kerb and ploughed into a crowd of people outside a sports centre in Newcastle.

It happened outside Westgate Sports Centre where an event was taking place to celebrate the end of Ramadan.

Two children are in intensive care and one adult is seriously injured.

Northumbria Police said the incident was not believed to be terrorism-related. 

A 42-year-old woman was arrested and is in custody.

The remaining injured are believed to have serious but non-life threatening injuries, officers said.

The woman who was arrested had been celebrating Eid with her family and hundreds of others. No-one else was being sought.