CABRERA: Breaking news out of Moscow where the 2018 world cup is taking place right now. A taxi plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in the middle of world cup festivities injuring seven people. And I want to warn you the video you are about to see is disturbing. Our Matthew Chance has the latest on the scene in Moscow -- Matthew.</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: All right, we can see there is a big black scuff mark here and some yellow paint as well because that's the exact spot where that taxi veered on to this pavement and accelerated through the crowd of pedestrians right along here including many football fans from Mexico who had come to witness this, to take part in this world cup 2018 here in Russia. The Russian authorities are trying to play this whole incident down saying it was not intentional. They say they have opened a criminal case in terms of a road traffic investigation. They are saying the driver simply lost control of the vehicle and plowed through those pedestrians. He then of course, if you look at that video, opened his driver door and attempted to make a run for it. So he attempted to do a hit and run as it were before he was taken and held by onlookers before the police arrived. Russia of course has some serious security concerns when it comes to staging an event as big as this, not just in Moscow but across 11 cities in Russia. It's had threats from Islamic militants from Syria who have said they will carry out revenge attacks against Russia during the world cup. It also has homegrown problems with Islamists and jihadists. So these are all concerns that the Russian authorities have been working very hard to contain to make sure this event goes as smoothly as possible. This it seems was not a terrorist attack, it was an unintentional road attack according to authorities. But again, it pulls into focus how difficult it is to make sure an event like the world cup goes off safely. Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.</s>CABRERA: Thank you, Matthew. Up next in the CNN NEWSROOM, you will meet the North Korean defector who battled starvation and had to eat mice just to survive before escaping. You are live in the CNN NEWSROOM.
A Taxi Ran Through A Crowd In Central Moscow