• Source:JND
HighLights
  1. Car rammed into World Cup celebration crowd.
  2. Seventeen people injured in Cabo San Lucas.
  3. Driver arrested after incident, videos viral.

A FIFA World Cup match victory celebration in Mexico took a violent turn on Thursday after a car rammed ‌through a crowd of fans in the popular tourist resort of Cabo San Lucas. The incident left at least 17 people injured, Los Cabos' city hall said in a statement.

The statement added that a total of 17 people received medical treatment, including the driver. The driver was ⁠arrested after the incident. The videos of the incident have gone viral on social media.

The video shows a black car moving into the crowd, with most of them wearing Mexico’s national football team shirts.

Seconds later, the car could be seen accelerating into the crowd, throwing people into the air before crashing into bollards.

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In another video, the crowd seemed to be pulling someone from the car and attacking them, while many people could be seen lying on the ground with blood on them.

Speaking about the incident, Los Cabos' Acting Mayor Jose Manuel Larumbe said, "I would ‌like ⁠to express our deepest solidarity with the people affected and their families following the unfortunate events that occurred tonight."

He promised to keep the public informed about the developments in the investigations into ⁠the incident.

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Cabo San Lucas is one of Mexico's top luxury tourist destinations and is located on the country's Baja California peninsula. Administratively, it is one of the two principal cities ⁠within the Municipality of Los Cabos, with the other being San Jose del Cabo and the resort corridor connecting them.

The celebrations erupted across the country on Thursday after Mexico beat the Czech Republic 3-0 in their final game of the World Cup group stage.

(With Reuters Inputs)


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