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International desk: A car smashed into a pizza restaurant east of Paris late Monday, killing a girl, but investigators said the young driver had tried to commit suicide and the incident was not terror-related.<\/p>\nInternational desk: A car smashed into a pizza restaurant east of Paris late Monday, killing a girl, but investigators said the young driver had tried to commit suicide and the incident was not terror-related.<\/p>\n
The episode came just five days after a terror-linked car attack on soldiers, the latest in a string of assaults in France since early 2015.<\/p>\n
Investigators have “ruled out the terrorist hypothesis” behind the latest incident, which took place in the town of Sept-Sorts, 55 kilometres (34 miles) east of Paris, a source close to the inquiry said.<\/p>\n
The man, who was arrested, said “he had tried to kill himself yesterday (Sunday) without success and decided to try again this way,” the source said.<\/p>\n
In Paris, interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the fatality was a girl aged 13, and not aged eight as initially reported.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the four was the girl's younger brother, police said.Four people were seriously hurt, after a preliminary figure had been given of six.<\/p>\n
The driver, born in 1985, “is not known to the intelligence services and has no criminal record,” Brandet said.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the public prosecutor's office in the town of Meaux said investigators believed the act was “deliberate… but apparently has no connection with a terrorist act.”<\/p>\n
France is on edge after suffering a string of terror-related attacks, including the use of cars as weapons.<\/p>\n
On August 9, six soldiers were injured after they were hit by a rented BMW in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. A BMW was also involved in Monday's incident.<\/p>\n
The suspect, a 36-year-old Algerian man, was later shot and wounded after a dramatic motorway chase.<\/p>\n
The death toll from jihadist attacks in France has exceeded 230 since January 2015.<\/p>\n
The country has been under a state of emergency since the Islamic State group attacked in Paris in November 2015, leaving 130 people dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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