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Men stand trial for French bus driver's death over face masks

Two men aged aged 24 and 25 are on trial for assaulting and causing the death of a bus driver in the town of Bayonne, south-west France, during the Covid epidemic in July 2020, after he asked them to wear their face masks. 

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Two men are facing a court in south-west France accused of beating a bus driver to death after they allegedly refused to wear face-masks, reports BBC News.

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