2 killed as car ploughs into nursery kids

Two children were killed and a dozen injured, two critically, in Japan yesterday after a car involved in an accident with another vehicle skidded into a nursery school group out for a walk with their teachers, NHK national television said. All of the children and two of their teachers were taken to hospital for treatment, NHK added, but two - a boy and a girl, both two years old - died soon after. The two drivers, both women - one aged 62 and the other 52 - were arrested, it said.