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Northern France crowd crash August 2026
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FIRST ENTRY AUG 27
AUG 27 · Day 1
Car crashes into crowd in northern France
Bruno Coutanceau, a top security official for Caen, said authorities were not for the moment dealing with a terrorist motive but the investigation was only beginning.
A spokesperson for the local administration of Calvados told the BBC that some of those injured were receiving treatment in the emergency ward of a nearby hospital.
Locals have been told to avoid the area around the Caen train station.