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Marseilles incident: Car crashes into two bus shelters killing at least one person in the southern French city | Marseilles incident: Car crashes into two bus shelters killing at least one person in the southern French city |
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At least one woman has been killed and another injured after a car crashed into two bus shelters in the French city of Marseille. | |
Police advised the public to avoid the Old Port area where the driver, a 35-year-old man, was arrested. | |
The driver first hit a bus shelter around 8:15am in the 13th arrondissement in the poorer northern part of France's second-largest city, before hitting a second bus shelter an hour later in the 11th arrondissement, several miles south. | |
A police source told Reuters the driver's motives are currently unclear. | A police source told Reuters the driver's motives are currently unclear. |
The crash comes just days after back-to-back van attacks in Barcelona and Spanish resort town of Cambrils killed 14 people. | |
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