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France’s top security official says the driver of a van that crashed into a Christmas market in western France on Monday stabbed himself several times after the incident.

11 people including the driver were injured in the incident, which occurred in the town Nantes on a busy market full of holiday shoppers.

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Speaking on French television, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the driver “deliberately crashed into the crowd.”

Brandet said the driver is among five people that are seriously hurt.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a statement he was going to Nantes Monday evening.

Video images on French television showed a white Peugeot van in the market at the city’s main square.

The apparent attack in Nantes came after a pair of weekend attacks – one in which a driver ran down 13 bystanders, and another in which a recent convert to Islam knifed police officers.

The driver was arrested following the attack in the city Dijon in eastern France, while the assailant who stabbed the officers outside the city of Tours was shot to death by police. None of the victims in those attacks died.