Two people are in critical condition while several others have been injured after a man, allegedly a Muslim, rammed a car into a crowd on Ile d'Olero, a French island, as per several media reports.

The driver, during his arrest, reportedly said, "Allah Akbar," the public prosecutor of the city of La Rochelle, Arnaud Laraize, told French publication Le Figaro.

The public prosecutor has also revealed that the anti-terrorism prosecutors office, at this stage, is not involved in the case.

The suspect is a 35-year-old man who resides in a small fishing village, La Cotinière (Charente-Maritime), which is 4 kilometres away from the commune of Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron.

The suspect reportedly tried to burn his vehicle with some gas cylinders which were in it, but Mr Laraize, the public prosecutor,

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