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The French gendarmerie announced that three people were injured on Sunday after a car broke into a church in the center of the country, after its eighty-year-old driver got confused and pressed the accelerator pedal instead of the brake.
The gendarmerie said the accident occurred shortly before the start of Sunday mass, indicating that one of the injured was injured while in the cemetery, while the other two were injured while inside.
He added that two of the wounded were slightly injured, but the third, a child, was taken to Moline Hospital on suspicion of suffering a concussion.
According to the church priest, the boy was released from the hospital with a broken clavicle.
Father Jean Bosco Akogo said: “God saved us. The entire gate was destroyed and the pillars fell. Fortunately, there were not many people inside the church, otherwise these pillars would have crushed several.”
According to the gendarmerie, the accident occurred because of the 84-year-old driver, who “got confused and pressed the gas pedal instead of the brake pedal.”
In fact, rescue teams initially thought the church was undergoing a terrorist attack.
One of the rescuers said: “People called us to tell us that a car had entered the church and that there were gunshots”, before it became clear that this sound was caused by the destruction of the wooden chairs one after another after let the car crush them.
According to the gendarmerie, “fortunately, the church door was ajar, forcing the car to turn left and collide with a pillar, otherwise it would have gone to the center lane”, and the death toll would have been tragic .
The accident took place in the Church of the Center of Desis, built according to the Romanian architectural style and classified as a historical monument.
The town has a population of about 5,000, and when the accident occurred there were about 30 people there.
The gendarmerie arrested driver number 80 for questioning and the investigation is still ongoing.
