Two dead including child after man drives car onto Wichita soccer field during game: police

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A vehicle was driven through a soccer game at the Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita , Kansas, on Saturday afternoon, leaving a child and an adult dead and sending multiple people to local hospitals before police arrested the driver at the scene.

Emergency dispatchers in Sedgwick County began receiving numerous 911 calls around 3:25 p.m. reporting that a vehicle had entered the field during a match at the complex, located at 2999 Greenwich Road.

Authorities confirmed two fatalities occurred at the scene and several other casualties were transported to area medical facilities. Two juvenile passengers were inside the vehicle during the incident.

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