The police confirmed tonight that several people died and more than twenty were injured in the attack perpetrated this afternoon in the town of

Waukesha

, in Wisconsin (USA), where

a car slammed into the participants

in a parade and ran over many of them .

The police chief,

Dan Phillips, confirmed that several of those hit in this incident were children

and also announced that there were "several" deaths, although he did not want to give more details because, as he explained, they are notifying the victims' families of the deaths.

The police confirmed that there is

a person detained

but did not give further details because the investigation is still open.

Phillips and the mayor of the city,

Shawn Reilly,

had previously appeared

before the media to confirm the number of injured, as well as that a suspect is being searched, and they assured that

there are no more threats

and the area in which the event occurred is secured.

The police chief also said that

the vehicle with which this attack was perpetrated

, a red SUV,

has been recovered

.

Neither the mayor nor the police chief wanted to give more details of this "chaotic and tragic incident", as defined by Phillips, which occurred at 4:39 p.m. local time (22,39 GMT), when the aforementioned

vehicle lunged at the participants

in this parade with which the town opened the holiday season.

Capture of a video in which the red SUV is seen traveling the street of the parade at high speed CITY OF WAUKESHA / HANDOUTEFE

Both officials called the media for a new press conference at 7:30 p.m. local time, to give more details of what happened.

Several videos posted on social media show

the car speeding

towards where the parade was taking place.

In one of these videos,

shots

can be heard

, just at the moment when the vehicle jumps the police cordon to enter the parade area.

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