France: Car crash not being treated as terror case, says Marseille Prosecutor
Car hits people in Marseille bus stop
One person has been killed after a bus hit people at a bus stop in Marseille
One person has been killed after a car hit people at a Marseille bus stop in France today even as Spanishpolice said they had identified the man who had killed 13 people in Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona on Thursday.
The driver in the southern city of Marseillefirst hit a bus shelter around 8:15 am local time in the 13th arrondissement - or district in the northern part of the city, before hitting a second bus shelter an hour later in the 11th arrondissement, several kmssouth, Reuters reported.
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 towards treating it as a mental health case," Tarabeux told AFP.
Police said that the driver has been arrested.Reports said the driver is a 35-year-old man who allegedly stole the car.
"At the moment we have no information on the motives of this individual," a police official told Reuters.
At least one person was injured in the collision, police said. The police haven't declared the incident as a terror attack.
Julien Ravier, mayor of the 11th and 12th districts, told BFMTV news channel that the victim was a woman in her 40s who was waiting alone at the stop, Reuters reported.
Reuters reported BFMTV as saying that a bystander noted the registration number of the car, which the police used to trace the vehicle to the city's Old Port district, where the suspect was arrested.