France: Terrorist knife attack at train station sees 2 women murdered, attacker shot dead

(Marseille) At around 2pm local time, a North African man got up from the bench he was sat on outside the main train station in Marseilles, pulled out a knife and, whilst uttering ‘Allahu Akbar’, murdered 2 women.

Thankfully, French servicemen on patrol responded quickly and shot dead the knifeman before he could attack anybody else.

Authorities are treating the incident as terrorism and are probing any ties that the suspect may have had to terror organizations.