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| Marseille crash: one dead after car driven into bus shelters | |
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| At least one person has died and another has been injured after a car was driven into two bus shelters in Marseille. | At least one person has died and another has been injured after a car was driven into two bus shelters in Marseille. |
| French police said the vehicle mounted the pavement in the 13th arrondissement in the north of the city at about 9am on Monday, hitting and injuring one person. | French police said the vehicle mounted the pavement in the 13th arrondissement in the north of the city at about 9am on Monday, hitting and injuring one person. |
| An hour later, the same vehicle crashed into a second bus shelter in the 11th arrondissement, a few miles south, killing one person. | An hour later, the same vehicle crashed into a second bus shelter in the 11th arrondissement, a few miles south, killing one person. |
| The driver was arrested and police and soldiers attended the scene. “At the moment we have no information on the motives of this individual,” a police official told Reuters. | |
| Officers spotted the vehicle in the Vieux Port area of the city, where they arrested the driver, a 35-year-old man known to the police for “acts of minor delinquency”. | Officers spotted the vehicle in the Vieux Port area of the city, where they arrested the driver, a 35-year-old man known to the police for “acts of minor delinquency”. |
| BFMTV reported that the vehicle was a stolen Renault Espace and that the driver was said to have “psychological problems”. Police advised locals and tourists to keep away from the area. | |
| Julien Ravier, the mayor of the 11th and 12th arrondissement, told BFMTV that the victim was a woman in her 40s who was waiting alone at the stop. | |
| The incident came as Spanish police continued their search for the 22-year-old driver who ploughed a van into a crowd in Barcelona on Thursday. | The incident came as Spanish police continued their search for the 22-year-old driver who ploughed a van into a crowd in Barcelona on Thursday. |
| More details soon … | More details soon … |