Seven dead including 8-year-old after rally car veers off track and ploughs into crowd

SRI

Seven people, including an eight-year-old girl, have been killed after a rally car veered off the track and ploughed into the crowd in Sri Lanka. The incident came during the Fox Hill Supercross race on Sunday in Diyatalawa, an army base town. Thousands of spectators had been watching the event, which sees drives race through the town, located about 110 miles east of the capital of Colombo. The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but police have launched an investigation. Four