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8 injured as man rams car into pedestrians, brandishes knife in Italy’s Modena

South China Morning Post · · 160 words · By Reuters
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“Eight people were injured on Saturday when a car drove into pedestrians in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm a car drove into pedestrians in Modena on a Saturday, with reports of 7 to 8 people injured.
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web search NEUTRAL — Up to a dozen people were injured Saturday in Modena, Italy when a crazed driver rammed his car into a crowd at full speed — then got out and stabbed at least one person. The man, who was described by…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/world-news/many-injured-as-sus…
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web search NEUTRAL — A man has driven his car into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena, before trying to stab them, officials say. Eight people have been injured, two seriously. They include a woman who rep…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv28pd4n22o
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web search NEUTRAL — Seven people were injured, two seriously, on Saturday after a car rammed into a group of pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena. Police said the driver, in his thirties, has been arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/16/people-injured…
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“Police said they arrested the driver, a man in his thirties”
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The Guardian and other web search results consistently report that police arrested a driver in his thirties.
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web search NEUTRAL — Seven people were injured, two seriously, on Saturday after a car rammed into a group of pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena. Police said the driver, in his thirties, has been arrested.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/16/people-injured…
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web search NEUTRAL — Eight people were injured on Saturday when a car drove into pedestrians in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena, police and the city's mayor said.
https://www.reuters.com/world/car-rams-into-people-italian-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — At least eight people were injured on Saturday after a car drove into pedestrians in the centre of the northern Italian city of Modena. According to police, the driver was arrested shortly after ...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/italy-8-inj…
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“Among the injured, four people are in a serious condition”
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Sources conflict on the number of serious injuries; some report two people seriously injured, while the claim states four.
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web search NEUTRAL — Seven people were injured, two seriously, before passers-by gave chase and stopped the man.A man has driven his car into pedestrians in the northern Italian city of Modena, before trying to stab them,…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyv28pd4n22o
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web search NEUTRAL — Several people are injured after a car reportedly drove into pedestrians in Modena, northern Italy, with the driver allegedly stabbing a passerby who tried to stop him.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/multiple-people-inj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dozens of people were injured when a car was driven into pedestrians taking part in a parade celebrating Liverpool FC's Premier League victory. Police said they arrested a 53-year-old white British ma…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/car-hits-liverpool-ce…
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“The city mayor, Massimo Mezzetti, told broadcaster RaiNews24”
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Wikipedia confirms Massimo Mezzetti is the incumbent Mayor of Modena since 2024.
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web search NEUTRAL — Massimo Mezzetti is an Italian politician and incumbent Mayor of Modena since 2024.He is a member of the Independent party. From September 2021 to June 2024 he was the General Director of the Biografi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Mezzetti
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web search NEUTRAL — Mayor Massimo Mezzetti revealed he had doubts from the start about meeting the controversial UN rapporteur last September, when she was presented with the souvenir at Modena’s City Hall.
https://unwatch.org/modena-mayor-regrets-honoring-un-rapport…
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web search NEUTRAL — Public-private alliance for tourism in Modena. It is the ‘model’ proposed for the Emilian city by Mayor Massimo Mezzetti and Angelica Ferri Personali.This is why the public is teaming up with the priv…
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/744161315/italian-motor…
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“The driver is an Italian national born in Bergamo, of North African origin, and a resident of the Modena area”
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While Wikipedia provides general information about Bergamo and Afro-Italians, the provided evidence does not contain a specific report confirming the driver's personal biography (birthplace, origin, and residency).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lake Endine (Italian: Lago d'Endine) is a lake of the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. Covering an area of 2.1 square kilometres, it is formed by the Cherio River at an altitude of 337 metres in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Endine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — African emigrants to Italy include Italian citizens and residents originally from Africa. Immigrants from West, East and North Africa officially residing in Italy in 2015 numbered about 1,000,000 resi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_emigrants_to_Italy
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bergamo ( BUR-gə-moh, Italian: [ˈbɛrɡamo] ; Bergamasque: Bèrghem [ˈbɛrɡɛm] ) is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy. The seat of the province of Bergamo, it is located approximately…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo
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“It seems [the driver] deliberately drove onto the sidewalk, hitting several people and crashing into a shop window”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results regarding computer software drivers and does not mention the incident in Modena.
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web search NEUTRAL — Driver updates for most hardware devices in Windows are automatically downloaded and installed through Windows Update. Windows Update updates drivers for various hardware including network adapters, p…
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/update-drivers-t…
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web search NEUTRAL — Access customized driver and software updates for your Intel hardware. The Intel® Driver & Support Assistant helps keeps your system up-to-date by detecting when updates are available.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/detect.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Download the latest official NVIDIA drivers to enhance your PC gaming experience and run apps faster.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/
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“He then got out of his car and brandished a knife”
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The provided evidence for this claim describes unrelated knife incidents in London, Devon, and Washington D.C., but does not confirm the driver in Modena brandished a knife.
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web search NEUTRAL — After stopping the vehicle, Rapela was approached by a man holding a knife about 20ins (50cm) long who shouted that he was going to kill him. But the father of two chased the man into the house to pro…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99l0z87vylo
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web search NEUTRAL — "The male driver exited from the vehicle and pointed a pen knife at members of the public.Dash cam footage from the scene appeared to show a vehicle on two wheels next to a large tree on Wilder Road. …
https://www.devonlive.com/news/police-continue-quiz-man-who-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The man exited the vehicle with a knife and ran toward our officers.At the time, the sources said that after the driver of the vehicle rammed his car into a barricade on Constitution Avenue, the drive…
https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2021/04/02/us-capitol-on-lock…
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“One man who tried to stop the driver suffered minor injuries”
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The provided evidence consists of dictionary definitions of the word 'man' and does not contain any information regarding a specific person injured while stopping the driver in Modena.
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web search NEUTRAL — The combining form -man is used like a suffix meaning “man,” most often to indicate a man who performs a particular job or function. It is often used in a variety of technical and everyday terms.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/man
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web search NEUTRAL — Male anatomy is distinguished from female anatomy by the male reproductive system, which includes the testicles, sperm ducts, prostate gland and epididymides, and penis. Secondary sex characteristics …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · The meaning of MAN is an individual human; especially : an adult male human. How to use man in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man
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