MOSCOW—A taxi plowed into a crowd near Red Square on Saturday evening, injuring eight people, including Mexican soccer fans, setting off a security scare as the World Cup got under way in Russia.
The detained driver, a Kyrgyzstan national, may have fallen asleep and his car skidded onto a busy sidewalk, Russian state media reported. A video posted on social networks showed the driver trying to flee the scene after the incident and being chased by passersby.
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