PARIS (Reuters) -Five people including a hotel manager and the manager’s son were stabbed at a hotel in the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday and one was in critical condition, the city’s prosecutor said. The Tunisian attacker, who had two knives and a crowbar, died after being shot by police, prosecutor Nicolas Bessone […]
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Tunisian stabs five in Marseille, then shot dead by French police
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PARIS (Reuters) -Five people including a hotel manager and the manager’s son were stabbed at a hotel in the southern French city of Marseille on Tuesday and one was in critical condition, the city’s prosecutor said.
The Tunisian attacker, who had two knives and a crowbar, died after being shot by police, prosecutor Nicolas Bessone and the police said.
Bessone told reporters that the attacker, a legal immigrant, had been evicted from the hotel for not paying rent.
The incident took place at 2:45 p.m. (1245 GMT) in Marseille’s first arrondissement, or district.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon and Makini Brice; Editing by Kevin Liffey)