Woman dies as van plows into French bus stops
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ONE person was killed and another seriously injured in the southern French city of Marseille yesterday after a van plowed into people at two different bus stops, said police sources, adding that the suspected driver had been arrested.
Marseille’s prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux said that investigators had no “element pointing to a terrorist attack” and that the driver was believed to suffer from “psychiatric” problems.
“He was found with a letter from a psychiatric clinic and we are leaning toward treating it as a mental health case,” Tarabeux said.
The vehicle first drove at speed toward a bus stop in the city’s northern 13th district at around 9am, leaving one person seriously hurt.
The driver then continued onto the eastern 11th district, where he drove at another bus stop, causing one fatality.
Meanwhile, police across Europe were searching yesterday for the driver of a van that mowed down pedestrians in Barcelona last week, killing 13 in the Spanish city.
Several European cities, including London, Berlin and Stockholm, have been targeted in attacks by Islamist radicals using vehicles to run down pedestrians in streets.
Terrorism experts have warned that the intense media coverage of the attacks could spur copycat efforts by people with mental health problems that include a propensity for violence.
Julien Ravier, mayor of the 11th and 12th districts, told the BFMTV news channel that the victim in the Marseille incident was a woman in her 40s who was waiting alone for a bus.
A police source, who asked not to be identified, said the driver was in his mid-30s and was not from Marseille.
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