Brownsville: At least seven people were killed and 10 injured when an SUV driver rammed his vehicle into people waiting for a bus at a bus station in the border city of Brownsville in the US state of Texas. Police has given this information. This bus stand is built outside a refugee camp. Victor Maldonado, director of the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center refugee camp, said he had seen video from a surveillance camera installed at the camp when he was informed about the accident on Sunday morning.
Maldonado said, “We saw in the video that this SUV was a Range Rover and it crossed a red light at high speed and ran over people sitting in the bus stop.” There is no arrangement, so people were sitting on the roadside bar. Most of the casualties in this accident are from Venezuela. According to the director, the vehicle overturned after hitting the roadside bar and reached a distance of 200 feet. Some people walking there also got hit by the vehicle.
Brownsville Police Investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened at 8:30 a.m. and it was not yet clear whether the driver intentionally hit people or whether it was an accident. The police officer said that the driver of the vehicle was injured and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The director of the refugee camp said that there was no threat before the accident, but later people came here and threatened. He said, “Some people came to the gate and told the security personnel that this happened because of us”.
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