5, including 2 children, dead after car crashes into pub lawn in Australia

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Five people, including two children, were killed and several injured at a popular tourist town in rural Australia after a car crashed into a crowd of patrons on the front lawn of a pub, authorities said on Monday.. Four died at the scene of the accident on Sunday evening in Daylesford, about 110 km northwest of Melbourne, Victoria state police said..

The SUV mounted a kerb and then drove across a grassed area outside the Royal Daylesford hotel, Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton said during a media briefing...

"There were a large number of people there at that time, at tables ... the vehicle collided with those tables and those people," Patton said.. Police did not specify if the victims were related and whether speed was a factor at this stage but said those killed were not local residents..

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