The van that was driven into two different bus stops in Marseille this morning is being investigated by police (Picture: Getty)

A woman has died after being hit at a bus stop in a ‘deliberate act’ in France’s second city.

She was killed at around 9am by a man in a Renault van that is reported to have been stolen.

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Another person is seriously injured after the incident in Marseille, a coastal city in the South of France.

Initially police would not confirm whether it was being treated as a terror attack. Prosecutors later confirmed that it was not related to terrorism.


A source said the man was known to police for minor crimes.

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A man was arrested in the Old Port area of the city this morning (Picture: Getty)

Police put up a white sheet to shield the victim of the collision (Picture: Reuters)

Police said that the man they have in custody was not being monitored for radicalisation (Picture: Reuters)

In this morning’s incident, the van drove into a bus shelter in the Croix-Rouge area of the city – a deprived area to the north of the city – at 8.15am, injuring the first victim.



Another 45 minutes later the same van was driven at speed at the second bus stop in Valentine, the 11th arrondissement, where the woman was killed.

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The driver of the vehicle then got out of the van, which was being examined by forensics experts this morning, before being arrested a short time later in the Old Port area.

A police source added: ‘At the moment we have no information on the motives of this individual.’

The incident comes just days after back-to-back van attacks in Barcelona and the Spanish resort town of Cambrils killed 14 people.

Police are said to know who the attacker was but have not yet said whether it was a terrorist incident (Picture: Getty)

Another person was inured in the incident in Marseille (Picture: Getty)

At least one woman has been killed after a car was deliberately driven into two bus stops in two locations in Marseille (Picture: Getty)

The car was stolen earlier this morning (Picture: Getty)

Forensics officers examine the scene of one of the collisions in Marseille (Picture: Getty)

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