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A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow's Red Square on Saturday, hurting 7 individuals including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting, officials and eyewitnesses said.The event occurred as locals and going to soccer fans thronged the centre of Moscow on a balmy summer night, a brief distance from the Kremlin.Moscow's traffic management authority stated the cabby had a motorist's licence released in Kyrgyzstan, a mainly Muslim ex-Soviet republic.
The chauffeur, in custody, told police he had not driven into the crowd on purpose, according to a video published on the Moscow police website.Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated in a post on Twitter: There was an undesirable occurrence with a taxi.
The driver lost control of the lorry.
The city's police stated they had opened a criminal examination into a believed offense of the traffic code.
The taxi being pulled from the accident spotThe cops stated seven individuals were injured in the event.
Moscow city's health care department said earlier that eight had actually been harmed and required to hospital, of whom 7 remained in a satisfactory condition, while one lady was seriously hurt.The Mexican embassy in Moscow stated 2 Mexican females had been lightly injured.
Amongst those hurt were a Ukrainian, 2 Russians and 2 people of Azerbaijan, Russia's RIA news firm estimated a source in the emergency situation services as saying.Video of the occurrence posted on social media revealed the yellow Hyundai taxi pull greatly out of a line of fixed traffic, speed up and mount the narrow pavement, which was packed with pedestrians.The taxi drove for about 10 metres along the pavement, bowling over pedestrians and carrying some on the bonnet of the cars and truck.
It came to a stop after hitting a traffic sign.As bystanders attempted to pull open the driver's side door, the driver, worn black trousers and black T-shirt, leapt out and sprinted away.
More onlookers chased him and could be seen attempting to tackle him as the footage ended.MEXICO SOCCER MATCHA witness informed Reuters that some of individuals hit were using Mexican team colours.
Mexico handle Germany on Sunday in their first World Cup match at Moscow's Luzhniki arena, and thousands of Mexican fans are in the Russian capital.A 2nd witness told Reuters about the driver of the taxi: He was taken out of the lorry, he ran off but bystanders nabbed him.
He was yelling: 'It wasn't me'.
Another witness, Viktoria Geraimovich, stated she called emergency services on her cellphone.
She said the motorist ran into a group of Mexicans.
There were shouts, groans.
He was just stopped because he struck a traffic indication.
Somebody offered him a punch in the face.
He stayed in the vehicle, people came near him, stated what are you doing, punched him in the face, he unlocked and tried to escape.
It's scary that it was in the centre (of Moscow) and I was best opposite, she said.Moscow's traffic management authority stated the driver was not intoxicated and Interfax news agency pointed out a source stating there was no alcohol in his blood.The motorist stated he wanted to brake but mistakenly hit the accelerator rather, according to a video released by authorities.
Cops stand guard after a taxi encountered crowds of people in main Moscow, Russia I are sorry for very much I wanted to go home later on, to have a sleep, he said.The motorist said he had actually been working for 20 hours by the time the occurrence happened.
Asked why he escaped, he stated he hesitated he would be killed after bypassers beat him.A court will hold a sentencing hearing on Monday, TASS reported.Authorities have vowed a safe soccer World Cup, which Russia is hosting for the first time ever.
It is occurring in 11 cities up until July 15.
In main Moscow, authorities have installed heavy concrete blocks across the entryways to pedestrian locations following a wave of events in European cities in which automobiles were utilized to slaughter people.The U.S.
State Department on Friday updated its travel suggestions on Russia, saying terrorist groups were plotting attacks.
Terrorists might assault with little or no caution, targeting traveler areas, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and city government centers, the travel suggestions stated.DRIVER'S LICENCEThe Moscow traffic authority posted on Twitter a copy of what it said was the cab driver's licence.
It gave his name as Chingiz Anarbek Uulu and said he was born upon April 22, 1990.
It provided his birth place as the town of Kochkor-Ata in Kyrgyzstan, near the border with Uzbekistan.An account on Russian social media platform Odnoklassniki for somebody with the very same name and date of birth was last upgraded 2 years ago.The last video he published on his page portrayed chapter 82 of the Koran, Islam's holy book, which went over judgment day.
There was nothing on the page to suggest any links to, or compassions with, Islamist militant groups.
The harmed taxi after its chauffeur drove into a crowd injuring seven peoplePeople walking in central Moscow on Saturday evening stated they understood the taxi event, however it did not put them off spending quality time in the city.
The streets were packed with people listening to street artists perform, or sitting at pavement coffee shops.
We're not scared but disappointed, said Youseff Fraige, 27, from Monterrey, Mexico.
We didn't expect something like this to happen in a place like this.
It could occur throughout the world, but that it occurs here in Moscow, in the middle of the World Cup, it's shocking for us.
( Reporting by Christian Lowe, Maria Kiselyova, Jack Stubbs, Gabrielle T # 233; trault-Farber and Tom Balmforth; Composing by Christian Lowe; Modifying by Stephen Powell, Catherine Evans and David Gregorio) © Thomson Reuters 2018( Except for the heading, this story has actually not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent personnel and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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