A truck full of arms, bombs and grenades killed 80 and injured many more when it mowed down a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice. The unaccounted for campus student, Nicolas Leslie, is a junior in the College of Natural Resources and is among the 85 UC Berkeley students attending a nearby study overseas program.
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“All of the UC Berkeley students were attending a 15-day program called Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe, part of the global European Innovation Academy”.
“Our hearts go out to all of those impacted by the senseless violence that occurred yesterday in Nice, France”, Vice Chancellor Cathy Koshland and Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell said in a message to students. ABC7 News spoke with Leslie’s father, who says other students with his son’s study overseas program are now looking all over Nice for him.
In addition to Leslie, at least three students were injured in the attack, according to school officials. The third student suffered a broken foot.
The program has been suspended for the national three days of mourning and will continue through its planned end date on July 24. But Leslie’s aunt, Bottini’s wife, said the student never returned to his student housing Thursday night. So far, three students have opted to return home to the U.S. The group is studying at a university in Paris, and that university has “implemented additional security measures for entry to their facility and are offering counseling to all students living there”, Friedman wrote.
On his Facebook page, Nicolas Leslie said he graduated from Torrey Pines High School.
The university has contacted every hospital in the Nice area and none appear to have Leslie as a patient, said Claire Holmes, UC Berkeley’s associate vice chancellor of communications and public affairs. Berkeley sophomore, Tarishi Jain, was among 20 hostages killed by Islamist militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 1.
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Leslie’s uncle, Fabio Bottini, has been checking hospitals in Nice to try to find his nephew.
