Two passengers are killed as attacker shouting 'Allahu Akbar' slits a woman's throat with a butcher's knife and stabs another at Marseille station before soldiers shoot him dead

A man carrying a butcher's knife and shouting 'Allahu Akbar' killed two female passengers before being shot dead by soldiers at Marseille's train station in southern France. The attack at Marseille's busiest train station took place early this afternoon, as scores of armed police officers and soldiers swarmed the area. Both victims were women, with one left with a 'sliced neck'. The other was stabbed in the stomach. The prosecutor's office in Paris said in a statement the probe would focus on 'killings linked to a terrorist organisation' and the 'attempted killing of a public official', two terror-related charges. Early pictures from the scene (main image) showed a woman lying on the ground and armed police standing over a man on the floor. It was not immediately clear whether that was the attacker or another man being arrested. A police source said the stabbings were 'frenzied and took place in front of lots of witnesses. The man first shouted threats, and then launched into the two women