MOSCOW POLICE SAYS TAXI DRIVER WHO HIT PEDESTRIANS FELL ASLEEP AT WHEEL

MOSCOW: The suspect in a taxi crash near Red Square that injured two Mexican World Cup fans and other pedestrians told interrogators that he fell asleep at the wheel, Moscow police said on Sunday. The city police released a video of an interrogation session with a man identified as the Kyrgyz taxi driver, in which he says he briefly dozed off and accidentally hit the gas. It was unclear whether the man spoke under duress. The man says he hadn’t slept in 20 hours and wasn’t drunk, and ran away after the accident because he was afraid that angry bystanders would kill him. Police would not comment on whether the crash would affect security measures for the World Cup, which is being held in 11 Russian cities over the next month.