While no group has come forward to take responsibility for the attack, Islamic State militants have been praising Bouhlel’s tactics, reports Vocativ.
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“There was a motorcyclist who tried to get up to him, other people in the hotel said he was tugging at the door”, Mr Zarzycki told The Telegraph.
“On the plane, from France to RDU, they say please keep France in your thoughts and prayers”, said Katelyn Storey, a UNC-Chapel Hill student was was studying overseas in France, just a few hours away from Nice.
As a truck swerved into the promenade packed with thousands who had just watched Bastille Day fireworks, a motorcyclist is seen in video footage, speeding alongside the huge, white vehicle. “Our hearts go out to the people in Nice, France”.
Hollande said it was not immediately clear whether the driver had accomplices.
The attack has so far killed 84 people and wounded 202, 25 of which are on life support, while 52 are in a critical condition.
An eyewitness to the attack Thursday night in Nice, France, that killed at least 84 people and injured more than 100 described the man linked to the incident as a “young guy, very focused on what he was doing”.
He said that the day is a “symbol of liberty”, and that “human rights are denied by fanatics and France is quite clearly their target”.
He fired several times on three police officers and continued to race for 300 meters before being neutralized by security forces, Molins continued, saying that Bouhlel was shot dead on the passenger side of the truck cabin.
At least two Americans were killed in the attack, a father and son from Lakeway, Texas, who were visiting the town on the French Riviera. You know that the people of France don’t know that Toronto city council is having a moment of silence but we know that we’ve done it. He said more than 10 children were among the dead.
Two other events have been cancelled in the wake of the attacks: a Rihanna concert and the Nice Jazz Festival. Footage from the attack showed strollers being raced down the street as crowds fled away from the speeding truck.
France will begin a three-day period of mourning on Saturday.
The truck involved in the Nice attack. Authorities carried out search operations through France and its neighbouring countries in a bid to capture those responsible for the attacks, and a state of emergency was imposed.
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A 9-year-old and his family “have finally been found!” one recent post said atop a photo of a child sitting in front of a birthday cake.
