Taxi Plows Into Moscow Crowd, Injuring Seven

Taxi Plows Into Moscow Crowd, Injuring Seven
Police officers, investigators and members of emergency services work at the site of an accident after a taxi ran into a crowd of people in central Moscow, Russia on June 16, 2018. Moscow Traffic Management Centre Press Service/Handout via REUTERS
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MOSCOW—A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring seven people including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting, officials and eyewitnesses said.

The incident took place as residents and visiting soccer fans thronged the center of Moscow on a balmy summer evening, a short distance from the Kremlin.