The police arrived at the scene, local media reported. The 35-years old driver was arrested.
The perpetrator mowed down a 42-year-old woman at the second bus stop, she later died from the injuries sustained. Another 29-year old woman is also allegedly injured.
The Bouches-du-Rhône police services stated that the operation is underway and ask people to avoid the area of Vieux-Port, where the accident took place.
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13:19
The arrested driver was familiar to the police, but he wasn`t in the intelligence supervision list, according to local TV reports.
The Renault Espace car the driver used was carjacked earlier in the morning, the BFMTV channel reported.
The state of emergency France has been subject to since the November 2015 Paris attacks that killed 130 will be extended. The shooting came but two days after men were arrested in Marseille on suspicion of planning an "imminent" attack.
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