At least 2 people are dead and 6 injured after a car crashed into outdoor seating at a restaurant in Washington, DC

At least two people were killed and six people were injured after a car plowed into outdoor seating at a restaurant in Northwest Washington, DC, on Friday, according to WTOP.

According to the report, Washington, DC, fire chief John A. Donnelly said that a driver lost control of his car near the restaurant Parthenon, and swerved into the restaurant's outdoor seating area. Authorities have declared the crash a mass casualty event.

"There are no indications that this was intentional," Second District Police Commander Duncan Bedlion said, according to the Associated Press. "We have a cooperative driver. He's staying with us."

DC Metropolitan Police said that two women died of their injuries, eight people were transported to local hospitals after the crash.

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