Car Runs Into Carnival Revelers In Belgium, Killing 6

The driver and a second person were arrested when their car came to a halt.

A car slammed at high speed into carnival revelers in a small town in southern Belgium early Sunday, killing six people and leaving 10 more with life-threatening injuries. Several dozen were more lightly injured.

"What should have been a great party turned into a tragedy," said Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden.

The prosecutor's office said that in the early stages of the investigation there were no elements to suspect a terror motive, and two locals in their thirties were arrested at the scene in Strépy-Bracquegnies, some 30 miles south of Brussels.