French soldier shoots dead suspected Daesh militant after stabbing two women in Marseille

Terror attacks in France, Canada: A French soldier shot dead a man who had stabbed and killed two women at Marseille’s main railway station yesterday “in what officials described as a ‘likely terrorist act,’” Reuters reports. Daesh claimed responsibility in a statement. Meanwhile, a suspected Islamist terrorist in Edmonton, Canada, stabbed a police officer and drove a van into a crowd of pedestrians. Five people were injured, the Toronto Star reports.