Two people have been killed in Texas after a suspected drunk driver drove through barriers set up for a festival and slammed into a crowd of pedestrians.
Police in Austin, where the annual South By Southwest (SXSW) conference is taking place, said the victims were confirmed dead at the scene.
Another 23 people were taken to hospital with five initially listed in critical condition.
Two remained critical on Thursday morning with life-threatening head injuries, said Dr Christopher Ziebell, the emergency department director at the University Medical Center-Brackenridge.
"The most critical patients I have a great deal of concern for," he said.
"We are going to do our best for them, but these are some of the worst injuries that we see and not everybody with these kinds of injuries is going to survive."
The crash happened around 12.30am in a downtown area where festival-goes were queuing outside a nightclub.
The crash happened in downtown Austin Witnesses said the car was travelling at around 70mph and was being chased by police before the incident.
One woman said she saw "people flying".
Scott Jakota, a musician from Indiana, told the Austin American Statesman newspaper he was one of the first people hit outside The Mohawk nightclub.
He said the driver "gunned" the car and he "was thrown up into the sky".
Ally Hulton, from Los Angeles, was on the balcony of her friend's apartment overlooking the street when she saw the car driving "at full speed" before slamming into the crowd.
"About 10 bodies went flying," she told the newspaper.
The driver, who has not been identified, was fleeing police when he ploughed through the barricades, Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said.
The man eventually crashed and tried to make a getaway on foot.
A police officer shocked him with a stun gun and took him into custody, the chief said.
The driver faces two counts of capital murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault with a vehicle.
SXSW is an interactive film and music festival which attracts many performers and stars.
On Wednesday night, Kanye West and Jay-Z performed a two-hour show.
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