Taxi slams into crowd

EIGHT people were injured yesterday when a taxi crashed into pedestrians on a sidewalk near Red Square in Moscow.

Russian police said the driver in the crash, near a popular tourist area, had been detained. Moscow’s traffic monitoring agency said the driver claimed the crash wasn’t premeditated.

The city health department said seven of the injured were in satisfactory condition and one was in a more serious condition. Specifics on their injuries were not available.