A father and son from Texas, identified as Sean Copeland, 51, and Brodie, 11, also died in the attack.
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Nice’s famous Promenade des Anglais, the site of the slaughter, has reopened. Officials in Italy didn’t immediately respond to requests for confirmation.
The ministry said it had received confirmation of their deaths late Monday from French officials but it did not identify them or provide any details.
People who went to the same gym as Lahouaiej-Bouhlel – where he took salsa dancing classes and lifted weights – described him as a vain man who “flirted with anything that moved”.
Juy said accounts of Bouhlel’s character by relatives and neighbours reported in the media appeared to portray an unstable character who felt isolated and was susceptible to violent outbursts.
IS has claimed responsibility for the attack. He was killed by police after ramming his truck through crowds after a holiday fireworks display Thursday night.
The suspect is among seven people in custody in the probe into last week’s attack, which killed 84 people.
The prosecutor’s office says the identification of the 49 bodies is being carried out according to an accelerated procedure established after the November 13 attacks on Paris, using DNA or medical records provided by families.
Debbie Cook told reporters outside the Pasteur hospital Monday that her friend, 22-year-old Adelaide Stratton, suffered serious injuries but that “she is getting better every day”.
She said Stratton can not speak and does not remember the attack, “which is better”.
“Are you defending him?” the man said, incredulously.
French police secure the area as the investigation continues at the scene near the truck that ran into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice, France, July 15, 2016. Numerous dead and 308 injured were children. Buildings stood silent across the country.
“A search of his computer illustrates a clear… and recent interest in radical jihadism”, Molins said, adding that Bouhlel had recently grown a beard and told people it was for religious reasons. Four others arrested previously were still being held, but Bouhlel’s estranged wife was released without charge after being held since Friday.
Bouhlel’s rapid radicalization has puzzled investigators. Friends and family said he had not been an observant Muslim in the past.
He had come to France from the northeastern Tunisian town of Msaken in 2005.
France has called up 12,000 police reservists to relieve the pressure on the country’s overextended security agencies, with Cazeneuve urging “French patriots” to join the force as volunteers.
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that after investigators spoke to scores of the attacker’s relatives and acquaintances, the conclusion drawn has been that he was someone who “seemed to have been radicalised very quickly”. “That undermines the trust people have in the government to stop these events and it is extraordinarily hard to rebuild that trust once it’s lost”.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian noted that IS had recently repeated calls for supporters to “directly attack the French, Americans, wherever they are and by whatever means”.
It has also produced the largest contingent of French militants waging jihad in Syria, with about one in 10 originating from the Mediterranean city.
The Estonian Foreign Ministry says that two of the 84 people killed in the Nice truck attack were Estonians.
“Daesh gives unstable individuals an ideological kit that allows them to make sense of their acts … this is probably what happened in Nice’s case”, Valls said, referring to the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
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“Those links, for the moment, have yet to be established by the investigation”.
