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WORLD NEWS Monday 18 June 2018

Police: Taxi driver who hit 8 Moscow pedestrians fell asleep

By ANGELA CHARLTON never and could never be
Associated Press a terrorist," Almazbek Anar-
MOSCOW (AP) — The sus- bek said.
pect in a taxi crash near The younger Anarbek won
Red Square that injured two a bronze medal last year
Mexican soccer fans and in the world championship
six other pedestrians as Rus- of Pankration, an ancient
sia hosts the World Cup told sport combining skills of
interrogators he fell asleep boxing and wrestling
at the wheel, Moscow city Videos circulating on Rus-
police said Sunday. sian social media and
The police released a vid- some news websites after
eo of an interrogation ses- the incident showed the
sion with a man the Mos- taxi veering onto the side-
cow force identified as the walk Saturday and striking
taxi driver. In the recording, pedestrians. The accident
he says he briefly dozed off took place on Ilinka Street,
and accidentally hit the about 200 meters (650 feet)
gas. It was unclear whether from Red Square and Mos-
the man spoke under du- cow's famous GUM shop-
ress. ping arcade, an area pop-
The man in the video says In this image provided ambulance and police work at the site of an incident after a taxi crashed ular with tourists.
he hadn't slept in 20 hours into pedestrians on a sidewalk near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 16, 2018. Viktoria Geranovich, who
and wasn't drunk, and ran Associated Press works nearby and filmed
away after the accident the fleeing driver on her
because he was afraid that as 28-year-old Chyngyz An- ras Ordo in Kyrgyzstan, An- shock, horror" after what phone, described her
angry bystanders would kill arbek, who is from Kyrgyz- arbek's older brother said happened. shock.
him. He was later detained. stan. only had been working as "Let people say what they "I called the ambulance
The Moscow city traffic au- Speaking to The Associated a taxi driver for a month. He want, but my brother is right away," she told The As-
thority identified the driver Press from the town of Mu- said his sibling was in "stress, clean, not guilty. He was sociated Press. q