Marseille stabbing: Man 'armed with knives and baton' shot dead after attack at hotel

By Alice Scarsi, World News Editor, Jon King, News Reporter

Forensic police officers work at the site where French police shot dead a man suspected of stabbing (Image: AFP via Getty Images)

A man has been shot dead by police in a French city after five people were wounded in a hotel and a nearby street. The man was armed with two knives and a baton. He had been evicted from the hotel in Marseille for not paying his rent, according to local authorities.

Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone told reporters the man ignored police warnings to drop his weapons. Mr Bessone said the man attacked one person in his old room before stabbing the manager of the hotel and his son.