A driver has plowed into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena, injuring eight people, four of them critically, before trying to flee and being detained by police, local authorities said.

A busy Saturday afternoon in northern Italy turned horrifying when a car drove straight into a crowd of pedestrians in the heart of Modena. Eight people were injured, four of them critically, and one woman

My brother is not well, but fortunately he is not in a life-threatening condition. It was a terrible, devastating thing.” This is how Maria Grazia Muccini, the sister of one of the people