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| Marseille incident: Van crashes into two bus shelters killing at least one person in the southern French city | Marseille incident: Van 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 van crashed into two bus shelters in the French city of Marseille. | At least one woman has been killed and another injured after a van crashed into two bus shelters in the French city of Marseille. |
| Police advised the public to avoid the Old Port area where the driver of the Renault Master, 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. | 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 woman in her 40s was killed at the second bus stop in front of a KFC restaurant and a man injured at the first, French media said. | |
| BFM-TV said a witness noted the license plate of the van and was able to give it to police. | |
| A motive was not immediately known. | |
| Media reports say the driver was known to police for minor crimes and has psychological issues. | |
| A Marseille police official told PA it is too early to blame the incident on terrorism, but "given the times" it cannot be excluded as a motive. | |
| David-Olivier Reverdy, of the Alliance police union, said all possibilities are currently being studied. | |
| The crash comes just days after back-to-back van attacks in Barcelona and the Spanish resort town of Cambrils killed 14 people. | The crash comes just days after back-to-back van attacks in Barcelona and the Spanish resort town of Cambrils killed 14 people. |
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