It comes eight months after a series of terrorist attacks on November 13 in Paris, which killed 130 people.
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Nice – France has declared three days of national mourning from Saturday after a gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice late on Thursday, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores more, the prime minister said.
The driver, who a police source said was of French-Tunisian heritage, plowed through the revelers for 1.2 miles before police shot and killed him.
Clinton said that “every American stands in strong solidarity with the people of France, and we say with one voice: We will not be intimidated. It is urgent now that it be declared”, she said on Twitter.
It is thought they were on a family holiday at the time of the atrocity.
In an apparent swipe at European Union countries that disapprove of Ankara’s crackdown on Kurdish separatist fighters, Erdogan said: “We expect those who act inconsistently in the face of terror to draw necessary lessons from the most recent attack in France”.
Although the cause of the attack has not been officially confirmed, Putin said today in a message of condolences to French President Francois Hollande that terrorism can be defeated only if “all civilized mankind pulls efforts together” to fight militants, their leaders as well as targeting their financial backers “wherever they are hiding”.
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“This afternoon our very own Brodie Copeland, as well as his father Sean Copeland, were killed during the terrorist attack in Nice, France”. The president added that France would continue its air operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
