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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T19:00:20.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nEight people have been injured after a car ploughed into pedestrians in the city of Modena in Italy.\n\nThe driver of the car then fled the scene and proceeded to stab a bystander who attempted to intervene and stop him.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe incident took place this afternoon in the Largo Porta Bologna area of the city, when a speeding car can be seen crashing into pedestrians before going into the window of a department store.\n\nTwo of the eight are seriously injured, with them being airlifted to the Maggiore Hospital in Bologna.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nOne woman who was crushed by the car is possibly facing amputation of both legs.\n\nThe driver, who was also injured from the collision, was apprehended by the police and has been taken into police custody for questioning, Il Tirreno reports.\n\nThe city's mayor Massimo Mezzetti attended the scene and said: \"Fortunately, no one was killed, but eight people were injured, two of them seriously.\n\n\"One woman will likely have to have both legs amputated - she was crushed against the shop window.\"\n\nHe said he had no confirmed details on the identity of the driver, though some witnesses told him the man appeared to be of North African origin.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe mayor added it remained unclear whether the driver had been under the influence of drugs or whether the act had been deliberate.\n\nFootage from the scene showed a badly damaged silver Citroen with its front severely smashed, surrounded by debris on the pavement outside the store.\n\nThe city centre was placed on lockdown following the incident as emergency services attended the scene.\n\nAn eyewitness of the incident said: \"There were people crying, people running away, and a lot of noise.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Diver dies in tragic accident during search for bodies of missing Italians who drowned in Maldives\n  * Donald Trump reveals the US has 'eliminated the world's most active terrorist'\n  * Trans woman awarded £10k after female-only app ban triggers 'what is a woman' case\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"We found the car and this man running away.\n\n\"Then there were some people running away due to the traumatic situation. Others, instead, were trying to help. He ran off in the midst of this.\"\n\nAnother eyewitness recalled the moment it happened, saying he \"threw\" himself into a shop as he saw the car hurtling towards the pavement.\n\nHe said: \"He swerved, crashed into the shop windows at Dallari’s, smashing them and severed the legs of a woman who was standing there.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"He crushed her right up against the shop window.\"\n\nPolice are continuing to question the suspect to determine the circumstances and motive behind the attack.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Car rams into eight pedestrians before ‘driver stabs bystander’ in Italian city centre"
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