A man was arrested after police in Japan said he drove his car deliberately into a group of primary school children in the western city of Osaka.
Seven children, who had been on their way home from school, were injured and taken to hospital.
An Osaka police official, who declined to be identified, said the driver was a 28-year-old man who lives in Tokyo.
Police are holding him on suspicion of attempted murder, the official said.
The children are aged seven and eight and police said the most serious injury was a fractured jaw suffered by a seven-year-old girl.
The other six, all boys, appeared to have suffered comparatively milder injuries that included bruises and scratches and they were under examination, police said.
The car was "zigzagging" as it hit the children, with one girl "covered in blood and other kids suffering what appeared to be scratches", a witness told Nippon TV.
The driver was wearing a surgical mask and "looked like he was in shock" after he was pulled out of the car by school teachers, Nippon TV quoted a witness as saying.
Violent crime is relatively rare in Japan but shocking incidents do sometimes occur.
In 2008, Tomohiro Kato rammed a rented a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in Tokyo's Akihabara district, before getting out and stabbing seven people to death.
Kato was sentenced to death and executive in 2022.
Japan and the United States are the only two members of the Group of Seven industrialised economies to retain the death penalty, and there is overwhelming public support for the practice.
Before the 2008 attack, Kato complained online of his unstable job and his loneliness.
Prosecutors said his self-confidence had plummeted after a woman he chatted with online abruptly stopped emailing him when he sent her a photograph of himself.
