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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Five injured after man ‘deliberately’ drives car into people on French island

A forensics officer in a white suit inspect a burnt-out car
Police inspect a burnt-out car found in Saint-Pierre d'Oléron after the incident. Photograph: Ugo Amez/SIPA/Shutterstock

Five people have been injured, two of them seriously, after a driver rammed into pedestrians and cyclists on Île d’Oléron, a popular tourist destination off France’s Atlantic coast, authorities have said.

“This morning, starting at 8.40am, an individual driving his vehicle went on a journey during which he deliberately hit several people who were in his path, either on bicycle or on foot,” the French interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, said on Wednesday.

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