Eleven people were injured when a wooden festival cart was overturned in the streets of Sakai City in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan.

Firefighters said three people were seriously injured, with at least one suffering a broken leg, in the accident on Sunday. But they reportedly remain conscious. They said those who were pulling and standing on the wooden cart, called danjiri, were pinned under it.

The cart was being hauled through the streets because it had been fixed and was being returned to the community.

The cart reportedly overturned soon after it left a shrine as it was being put through a move called "yarimawashi," in which a cart is turned at high speed.

Police are questioning those who were pulling the cart and spectators.