Marseille attack: French police shoot man dead after four people stabbed

NEWS: A man with a knife stabbed four people in the French port city of Marseille before he was shot dead by police; it's not believed to be a terror attack.

Source: AAP

French police have shot dead a man in central Marseille after he stabbed four people in the southern port city, in an attack that did not appear to be terrorism-related, police sources say.

The assailant tried to take a gun out to fire on police officers before they shot him, the source said on Tuesday.

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