At least one person was killed and 10 injured after a car crashed into a group of people near a train station in northern France, police say. A suspected man was later arrested after authorities launched a major emergency response in Caen, in the Normandy region. Local prefect David Claviere said seven of the injured were in critical condition and three more had minor injuries, AFP reported. “At the moment, it is not a terrorist motive, but the investigation is just beginning,” Bruno Coutanceau, senior security official in Caen, told AFP. All of the victims appeared to be men between the ages of 17 and 40, he told AFP. Claviere claimed that the car “deliberately ran over pedestrians on the street in front of the train station.” The suspect, a 26-year-old Russian-born man, was later arrested about 20 kilometers away in the port town of Ouistreham. He was not previously known to intelligence services and was known to police “only for traffic violations,” Claviere said. A spokesman for the local administration of Calvados told the BBC that some of the injured were receiving treatment in the emergency room of a nearby hospital. Police have launched an investigation into the incident, which will be led by detectives from Caen’s Specialized Criminal Division. Locals have been asked to avoid the area around Caen train station.
