{"id":2871,"date":"2026-10-18T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:03:57","slug":"truck-drives-through-youth-soccer-game-in-kansas-killing-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"Truck drives through youth soccer game in Kansas, killing two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A truck drove into a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, leaving a \u200bsix-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man dead, and 10 others \u200chospitalised with traumatic injuries, police said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The injuries ranged from minor to severe, but none appear to be life-threatening, Wichita police Captain Aaron Moses \u200bsaid at a news conference. The two people killed were \u200bpronounced dead at the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Moses said a 34-year-old \u2060woman was driving the truck, which ended up in a field \u200bat the west end of the Stryker Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>She has \u200bbeen cooperating with investigators, he said, but when asked whether she had been arrested, he said only that she was in custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what happened, but now \u200bwe\u2019re working very hard to find out why it happened, and \u200bwe\u2019re not there yet,\u201d Wichita police Chief Joe Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<p>The injured include two youths \u200caged \u20605, two aged 8, a 9-year-old and five adults, police said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to those 10 people, one adult was hospitalised for non-traumatic medical issues.<\/p>\n<p>The driver had a child playing soccer at the complex, but \u200bnot on the \u200bfield where \u2060the incident took place, Moses said.<\/p>\n<p>The truck involved had two juveniles as passengers, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency dispatchers started \u200bgetting calls about the incident at 3.25pm \u200blocal time, Moses said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a heartbreaking day for Wichita,\u201d Mayor Lily Wu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies came to Stryker Sports Complex to enjoy a Saturday afternoon, watching \u2060their \u200bchildren play soccer, and no one could \u200bhave imagined the tragedy that would unfold.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck drove into a youth soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, leaving a \u200bsix-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man dead, and 10 others \u200chospitalised with traumatic injuries, police said on Saturday. The injuries ranged from minor to severe, but none appear to be life-threatening, Wichita police Captain Aaron Moses \u200bsaid at a news conference. The two people killed were \u200bpronounced dead at the scene, he said. Moses said a 34-year-old \u2060woman was driving the truck, which ended up in a field \u200bat the west end of the Stryker Sports Complex.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}