Six killed as car hits revellers in Belgian town

A performer speaks on a phone in Strepy-Bracquenies, Belgium, after car slammed at high speed into a carnival (Olivier Matthys/AP)

Six people were killed when a car crashed into revellers in a small town in southern Belgium.

A crowd of more than 150 people had gathered in Strepy-Bracquegnies, 30 miles south of Brussels, at dawn on Sunday for the start of celebrations of a carnival which had been cancelled for the past two years due to coronavirus.