2 children killed, 4 injured in South Florida hit-and-run

WILTON MANORS, Fla. – Two children were killed and different 4 children were hospitalized with injuries erstwhile a car plowed into them and fled the country successful South Florida connected Monday, authorities said.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office said successful a quality merchandise that it was investigating what happened extracurricular an flat gathering successful Wilton Manors, Florida, on with the Wilton Manors Police and Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue.

The sheriff's bureau didn't instantly supply ages for immoderate of the children. Steven Gollan, a battalion main with the Fort Lauderdale Fire Department, said astatine a quality league Monday nighttime that the hospitalized children were “severely injured."

“This lawsuit is simply a horrific lawsuit immoderate clip of the year, fto unsocial close aft the holidays," Gollan said.

The Wilton Manor Police Department tweeted that a household reunification halfway was acceptable up astatine the City Hall Emergency Operation Center. Wilton Manors is located conscionable extracurricular of Fort Lauderdale.

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The car drove up connected a sidewalk to get astir a autobus earlier hitting the children, said Shaunta Adams, who had conscionable driven distant from her apartment.

“By the clip I looked up, I saw him going astir the autobus and I spot him deed the damn kids,” Adams told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “I jumped retired my car, my car was inactive running, I ran up and saw the archetypal miss connected the ground. I knew she was dead. I spell to the 2nd kid and I spot him dead.”

Wallene Johnson, who lives crossed the street, came extracurricular erstwhile she heard screaming and saw 2 bodies successful the parking batch and different kid lying connected the crushed down the road.

“How tin you sleep?” she told the Sun Sentinel. “And they’re babies. They won’t beryllium going backmost to school.”

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