FRANCE: 1 killed, another injured as car rams into 2 buses in Marseille

A car has crashed into two bus shelters in the city of Marseille in France killing one person and injuring another in two different incidents French police say.

Cops in France have warned people to stay clear of the Old Port area where the driver, a 35-year-old man, was arrested.

“At the moment we have no information on the motives of this individual,” a police official told Reuters.

The motive of the driver is yet to be determined but French police say it is not terror linked even as it revealed that it may be too early to draw up conclusions.

Read also: Spanish police gun down five alleged terrorists after attacks that killed 14, injured 100

The incident is coming days after terror group, ISIS claimed responsibility for a deadly car ramming incident which claimed the lives of no less than 13 victims and injured about a 100 others in the Las Ramblas tourists area of Barcelona.

Six days ago, there was chaos in the small town of Sept-Sorts east of Paris, France when a man ploughed his car into an outdoor terrace of a pizzeria where people were eating.

According to a local prosecutor who announced he was ruling out terrorism and opening a murder investigation in the Paris incident, the driver deliberately targeted the diners.

A similar incident happened nine days ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA after an assailant rammed his car into a rally which turned rowdy involving white supremacists and counter-demonstrators.

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