A 13-year-old girl has died and 12 people have been injured after a car was driven into a pizza restaurant to the east of Paris.

French police said the girl's younger brother suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.

French police said the driver of the car intentionally hit the restaurant, but added that they had no reason to suspect terrorist motives.

A spokesperson for the French Interior Ministry said that four of the injured were in a condition of "absolute emergency", while eight others were slightly injured.

Pierre-Henry Brandet said on French television that the male driver of the car was born in 1985 and was believed to have tried to commit suicide last week.

An official with the national gendarme service added the driver was arrested soon after the incident in the town of Sept-Sorts, a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Ile-de-France region, and around 36 miles from Paris.

Images on social media showed a car embedded in the front a Pizza Cesena, with tables and chairs strewn across the pavement around it.

A judicial official said that the Paris prosecutor's office, which oversees French terrorism investigations, was not involved in the case because there was no proof of terrorism at the early stage of the investigation.

A police official added that the man was suffering from mental ill-health and that investigators were not searching for accomplices.