Christian Estrosi, who was at the celebration when the incident happened, said: "We are terrified and we want to present to all the families our sincere condolences."
He said guns and grenades were found inside the truck, "There were guns in this vehicle and larger weapons, but I can't say more than that because that is the prosecutor's job".
French media has reported that a further 15 people were critically injured and dozens more wounded.
It is reported that the driver of the truck was shot dead after he drove at a high speed along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront. French authorities are investigating if the driver acted alone.
French television station BFM TV said up to 100 people were injured and local authorities were treating the incident as an attack, which one local official described as a "major criminal attack".
A French prosecutor has said that anti-terrorist investigators have taken over the probe into the incident.
Pictures and footage shown on social media showed crowds fleeing in terror from the scene on the promenade.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing gunshots and pictures on social media showed armed police with weapons trained on a badly damaged white lorry with what appeared to be bullet holes in the windscreen.
It is believed that French President Francois Hollande returned to Paris from the city of Avignon to hold a crisis meeting at the French Interior Ministry...
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A lorry has struck a crowd after Bastille Day celebrations in the southern French city of Nice, killing at least 80 people, including children, and injuring dozens, officials say.
ReplyDeleteIt happened on the famous Promenade des Anglais after a firework display. The driver was shot dead and guns and grenades were found inside the lorry.
President Francois Hollande said the attack was of a "terrorist nature".
He extended a state of emergency across France by three months....http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36800730
France plans to increase the intensity of strikes on Islamists in Iraq and Syria after Thursday’s incident when the country once again came under an attack probably staged by Islamist terrorists, French President Francois Hollande said in a televised address to the nation...
ReplyDeleteThe incident in Nice when dozens of people were killed when a truck hit a crowd of people was a terrorist attack, Hollande said.
Hollande said he decided to use reservists to ensure security in the country.
http://tass.ru/en/world/888317
A large truck plowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing at least 84 people and sending others fleeing into the sea as it bore down for more than a mile along the Riviera city's famed waterfront promenade...
ReplyDeleteThe driver was killed by police and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the Thursday night attack on France's national holiday, which rocked a nation still dealing with the aftermath of two attacks in Paris last year that killed a total of 147 people.
"Terrorism is a threat that weighs heavily upon France and will continue to weigh for a long time," Prime Minister Manuel Valls said after an emergency government meeting Friday. "We are facing a war that terrorism has brought to us. The goal of terrorists is to instil fear and panic. And France is a great country, and a great democracy that will not allow itself to be destabilized.".....ctvnews.ca
l'auteur de l'attentat de Nice est un Franco-Tunisien de 31 ans...
ReplyDeleteUn camion a foncé sur la foule sur la Promenade des Anglais à Nice où les habitants étaient venus assister au feu d'artifice du 14-Juillet, faisant au moins 84 morts. Le conducteur, un Franco-Tunisien de 31 ans, a été abattu.