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Taxi ploughs into Moscow crowd including soccer fans, injuring seven

A footage captured showing victims being rushed to the hospital. [Photo/Reuters]

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 centre of Moscow on a balmy summer evening, a short distance from the Kremlin.

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