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Chatham, Ill. (AP) -Three little children and a teenager were killed when a car drove through a building that was used for a post-school warehouse in Central Illinois. The authorities said on Tuesday that the crash, which sent six other children to the hospital, was probably not a targeted attack.

The car left a street, crossed a field and hit the building side of the building in the small town of Chatham on Monday afternoon, the Illinois State Police said in a statement. It traveled through the building and suggested numerous people before it left the other side.

The police said two 7-year-old, an 8-year-old and an 18-year-old were killed. Six other children were brought to hospitals and one remained in a critical condition.

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The driver, who was not injured, was taken to a hospital for evaluation, and the police said that toxicological reports were pending. The driver, a 44-year-old woman, was not in custody on Tuesday morning. The state police refused to give further details about the driver, and said that the crash had continued to be examined.

“This does not seem to be a targeted attack,” said the state police in a statement.

The deadly crash comes days after a car was plowed through a crowded road during a Filipino inheritance festival in Vancouver, British Columbia and killed 11 people. Similar vehicle ramming events have taken place worldwide in recent years, inspired some of extremist politics or blamed mental illnesses.

When the investigators of Illinois put together evidence from the crash site, the residents of the close -meshed community mourned around 15,000. Several prayer services were planned for Tuesday and a middle school was advised. Chatham is about 19 kilometers from the state capital of Springfield.

Parents said that the youth who need other things outdoors after school and in the summer camp program are very popular and offer a room in which students from different primary schools get to know each other.

Jennifer Walston, 43, and her three daughters left flowers and a stuffed animal on Tuesday. The large hole in the side of the building where the car entered was cordoned off with plywood and an area behind the building with a yellow tape.

Walston's daughters visit the group's summer camp and said she knew two girls who died in the crash. The authorities have not published the names of the victims.

“You see each other in the community. This is only devastating,” she said.

Jamie Loftus, founder of Ynot Outdoors, said that the surveillance cameras showed a vehicle that left the road “a considerable distance” and raced across the field towards the building.

The car then crossed a street, the parking lot of the sidewalk and ynot before he pushed through the building, “without an obvious attempt to change its direction,” said Loftus. After the vehicle had driven through the building, he crossed a gravel road and fell against a power stable and a Ballfield fence.

“I cannot collect the words to express a lot of everything that makes sense in printed form. However, I know that our families who have suffered loss and injuries today are very, very badly injured,” said Loftus on Monday in a social media contribution. “They are friends and their children are like our children.”

JB Pritzker, Governor Illinois, said his office had monitored the situation and was ready to give support.

“I am horrified and deeply sad about the death of children and numerous injuries in Chatham this afternoon,” said Pritzker in a statement on Monday. “My heart is difficult for these families and the unimaginable grief that they experience – something that no parent ever has to endure.”

The Chatham police department asked for prayers.

“A terrible tragedy has taken place here that affected us all,” said the department in a Facebook post.

By Monday evening, some members of the community and beyond had changed their Facebook profile photos into a picture of a red band and the words “Chatham Strong”.

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Reporter of Associated Press Lisa Baumann in Bellingham, Washington; and Sophia Tireen in Chicago contributed