Girl dies after a car crashed into a café in Paris

A car has crashed into a cafe in a village east of the French capital Paris, killing a girl and injuring 12 other people, four of them seriously.

The driver of the BMW was arrested after the vehicle hit the terrace of the cafe in Sept‑Sorts.

An interior ministry spokesman told the BBC the driver was 32 and French.

While his actions are said to have been deliberate, the incident is not being treated as a terror attack.

The spokesman said he had tried to kill himself a few days ago.

It appears he had no previous criminal record.

According to French local media, he told police he had weapons in the car.

First reports gave the age of the dead girl as eight but later she was said to have been 13.

Last week, a man rammed a group of soldiers in Paris, injuring six of them, before being shot and injured by police as he tried to escape on a motorway.

Source: BBC