Woman dies and two people injured at French farmers’ protest barricade

Farmers have been demonstrating for months (Matthieu Mirville/AP)

A woman was killed and her husband and daughter injured in a traffic collision at a barricade at a protest by French farmers against low wages and other grievances, authorities have said.

A car ploughed into straw bales that demonstrators had placed across a road, hitting the three people before it came to a stop against a tractor’s semi-trailer, prosecutor Olivier Mouysset said in a statement.