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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. His vehicle had struck another bus shelter in a different district of the city earlier in the morning, seriously injuring one person. | |
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. |