Nice city mayor Christian Estrosi urged residents to stay in doors.
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Chaos broke out in Nice, France, after a truck plowed through the Bastille Day crowd on Thursday.
– A large truck loaded with guns and hand grenades drove into a crowd of people who had gathered for a Bastille Day fireworks show Thursday in the southern French city of Nice, killing at least 70 people and injuring 100 more in a terror attack, officials said.
A truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday in Nice, France.
Nice is located on the French Riviera. Social media carried images of those hit lying apparently lifeless in pools of blood, prompting police to ask people to stop such posts.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said via Twitter that he was postponing his vice presidential announcement on Friday due to the situation in Nice. “I saw bodies flying like bowling pins along its route”.
Allemand said people took shelter in a nearby restaurant, where he continued to hear people shouting for missing family members.
“You can see wreckage all along the way, a body, bicycles, street lamps and debris everywhere”.
NBC News terrorism security analyst Malcolm Nance, executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project, a nonprofit research institute, said that while no one could immediately be certain, the incident bore all the hallmarks of a “major terror attack”.
The incident is believed to have happened on the Promenade des Anglais during a firework display. On Sunday, France had breathed a sigh of relief as the month-long Euro 2016 soccer tournament ended without a feared attack.
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President Obama has issued a statement, condemning “what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians”. Stay for now to your home. “More info to follow”, Estrosi wrote on Twitter.
