{"id":827469,"date":"2026-08-27T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:42:11","slug":"france-car-rams-crowd-at-bus-stop-in-caen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/827469\/","title":{"rendered":"France: Car rams crowd at bus stop in Caen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two people died\u00a0and nine\u00a0others were injured, six\u00a0of them in life-threatening condition, after a car drove into a crowd in the northwestern <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/france\/t-19065412\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a> city of Caen on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this point we are not assuming a terrorist motive, but the investigation has only just begun,&#8221;\u00a0deputy prosecutor Philippe Leonardo told journalists in the early hours of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators work\u00a0to establish motive<\/p>\n<p>A 26-year-old man described as being of Russian descent was in custody after he allegedly drove into a group of people late Wednesday night near the city&#8217;s main railway station.<\/p>\n<p>French police\u00a0said\u00a0one person was killed at the scene and another later died from injuries sustained in the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled but was arrested 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the scene, a source told the French AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Local media said the incident followed an argument at a nearby bus stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the attack, local authorities said the suspect was not known to intelligence services but had previous contact with police over traffic offenses.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: Kieran Burke<\/p>\n<p>If you rely on our team for trusted reporting, please take a moment to select us as your Preferred Source on Google by <a rel=\"noopener follow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=dw.com\" title=\"External link \u2014 clicking here\">clicking here<\/a> and hitting the &#8220;star&#8221; or &#8220;preferred&#8221; button, so you&#8217;ll always see our verified news first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least two people died\u00a0and nine\u00a0others were injured, six\u00a0of them in life-threatening condition, after a car drove into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-827469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}