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One dead as car hits Marseille bus stop Marseille bus stop hit by car, one dead and driver arrested
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One person has been killed after a car struck a bus shelter in the southern French city of Marseille, police say.One person has been killed after a car struck a bus shelter in the southern French city of Marseille, police say.
The driver has been arrested. Police say it is not clear whether the van was driven deliberately into the shelter in the old port area or whether it was an accident. The driver has been arrested. His vehicle had struck another bus shelter in a different district of the city earlier in the morning, seriously injuring one person.
But there are reports that another bus shelter in a different district of the city was struck earlier.
Police have advised people to avoid the old port area.Police have advised people to avoid the old port area.
They have given no indication of any motive behind the incident. Media say the driver is known to police.
The Francetvinfo website says the first bus stop was hit at about 09:15 (07:15 GMT) in the 13th district, where one person was injured.
The second bus stop was struck at about 10:00 at Valentine in the 11th district.
French media say the woman who died was in her 40s.
On Bastille Day last year, along the coast in Nice, more than 80 people were killed when a lorry was driven into celebrating crowds on the seafront in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.