At least one person has been killed and 10 people injured after a car crashed into a group of people near a train station in northern France, police say.<\/p>\n
A male suspect was later arrested after authorities launched a major emergency response in Caen, in the Normandy region.<\/p>\n
Local prefect David Claviere said seven of those injured were in a critical condition and three more had minor injuries, AFP reported.<\/p>\n
The incident took place near a bar, with local media reporting that a fight had broken out there before the incident took place. <\/p>\n
“For the moment, we are not dealing with a terrorist motive, but the investigation is only just beginning,” said Bruno Coutanceau, a top security official for Caen.<\/p>\n
All of the victims appeared to be men between the ages of 17 and 40, he told AFP.<\/p>\n
Claviere said that the car “deliberately drove into pedestrians in the street opposite the train station”. <\/p>\n
The suspect, a 26-year-old man born in Russia, was later arrested around 20km (12 miles) away in the port town of Ouistreham.<\/p>\n
He was not previously known to intelligence services and police had been aware of him “only for traffic offences”, Claviere said.<\/p>\n
Social media videos from the scene appeared to show crowds gathering around police cars and ambulances, where a large area was cordoned off. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the local administration of Calvados told the BBC that some of those injured were receiving treatment in the emergency ward of a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Police have opened an investigation into the incident, which will be led by detectives from Caen’s Specialised Crime Division.<\/p>\n
Locals have been told to avoid the area around the Caen train station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person has been killed and 10 people injured after a car crashed into a group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-751077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}