(Reuters) Two women aged 17 and 20 were stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by soldiers in the French city of Marseille on Sunday. Police sources said the attacker shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he slit one woman's throat and stabbed the other in the stomach at the city's main railway station. "If the military had not been there, we would have had a lot more deaths," said Samia Ghali, lawmaker for the Marseille region. Police sources said the attacker had been carrying a butcher's knife, was around 30, and was of North African appearance.
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