Car plows into pedestrians in Italian city, injuring eight; suspect overpowered

Eight people injured including one woman who lost both legs; one passer-by injured with knife wounds while helping victims.

On a Saturday afternoon in Modena, Italy, a young man drove his car at high speed into a crowd of pedestrians near the city's cathedral, injuring eight people and leaving one woman without both legs. The act — deliberate, sudden, and followed by a knife attack on a bystander — confronted a community with the kind of violence that resists easy explanation. What emerged in the aftermath was not only grief and questions about mental health systems that lose track of vulnerable individuals, but also a familiar political reflex: the rush to assign meaning to a man's origins before the full weight o

Car plows into pedestrians in Italian city, injuring eight; suspect overpowered

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