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| Man shot and killed at Marseille train station after attacking people with knife | Man shot and killed at Marseille train station after attacking people with knife |
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| A man has been shot and killed by police at a train station in Marseille after attacking passers-by with a knife, leaving two people dead. | |
| A French police source has said the attack is likely to be a terrorist one, Reuters reported. | |
| Security services are carrying out an operation at the city's main station in southern France and have asked people to stay away from the area. | Security services are carrying out an operation at the city's main station in southern France and have asked people to stay away from the area. |
| The deaths of the passers-by were confirmed by police chief Olivier de Mazieres, who told AFP: "Two victims have died by knife." | |
| The attack took place at the St Charles station in the early afternoon, with witnesses on Twitter speaking of a panic and a shooting as police intervened. | |
| The National Police reported on Twitter that an operation was underway at around 2:30 pm. | |
| French newspaper Le Figaro reported the mayor of Marseille Jean-Claude Gaudin paid tribute to the Sentinel military forces who gunned down the assailant "at a time when the number of victims could have been higher." | |
| France has been hit by a recent wave of terrorist atrocities carried out by Islamist extremists, including stabbings, shootings and lorry attacks. | |
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