Driver Shouting Allahu Akbar Runs Down 11 French Pedestrians
A driver screaming "Allahu Akbar!" Arabic for "God is great" appeared to deliberately mow down about a dozen pedestrians in the French city of Dijon before being arrested on Sunday, officials said. The driver, who was in his forties, hit groups of pedestrians in five parts of the eastern city before being arrested, a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior said on French television. Eleven people in all were injured, two of them seriously, officials said. According to testimonies on the scene, the driver also invoked "the children of Palestine" to explain his actions, the ministry's spokesman said, Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News