Have you been affected by the attack in Nice?
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The driver was fatally shot by French police. Nice-Matin said police were searching his apartment and questioning those who knew him.
“An individual drove a truck into the crowd”.
Toulouse regional newspaper La Depeche du Midi shows the scene of the attack in daylight with the words “Nice: Horror and panic”.
Since the beginning of a year ago, terrorists have targeted France in a series of shootings and bombings mostly aimed at social scenes, including a November massacre that killed at least 130 people. He urged residents to stay indoors.
Flags have been lowered across France and music events planned for Friday and Saturday have been canceled.
“The police have completely taken over the city, the promenade has now been closed down”.
At a beachside restaurant in Nice, France, Eric Drattell and his wife were relaxing after a fireworks show when a white truck began speeding down the promenade, mowing people down. He said, “I am deeply pained to learn that France is once again afflicted by a major tragedy caused by a heinous act of terror last evening”. “It was a spectacular fireworks show”.
A lot of people were screaming.
French officials said the truck plowed into the crowd over a distance of two kilometres near Nice’s Palais de la Mediterranee, a building that fronts the beach.
She said she saw dozens of police cars and ambulances.
“You can see wreckage all along the way, a body, bicycles, street lamps and debris everywhere”, he told CNN.
“The identification of the criminal is in progress”, he said, refusing to confirm reports that an ID card was found after police shot the truck driver dead. The driver continued forward as he hit scores of people.
“We saw hundreds of people rushing to get shelter”, she told media, still stunned. Now it’s the seaside city of Nice. “We stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack”.
Christian Estrosi, president of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region, said around 10 children had been killed in the attack.
Another man Aman Cheema simply tweeted the hastag “Canada” and “Hey guys me and my wife are safe, we were just two blocks away from the attack”.
“Two friends from Russian Federation were taking a walk on the Promenade des Anglais”.
“I remember thinking, ‘That’s really odd, ‘ because this is an area that’s been closed off to road traffic, just pedestrians were using it”, Coady tells NPR.
There was a minute’s silence held at the start of Friday’s 13th stage, a 37.5-kilometres time-trial from Bourg-Saint-Andeol to La Caverne du Pont-d’Arc.
“People were falling over”, he says.
Here’s what we know so far:1.
Counter-terrorism investigators from Paris have taken charge of the investigation under Chief Prosecutor Francois Molins.
Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain must redouble its efforts to defeat ” brutal” terrorist “murderers” after the “horrifying” attack in Nice, France, and has called a meeting of senior officials in the Government’s emergency Cobra committee. This was not a high-tech attack but the brutality and the banality of the method make it all the more terrifying. French authorities are working to determine if the attacker had any accomplices.
Montreal teacher Heloise Landry, another Canadian who is visiting the city, said she narrowly escaped being hit by the truck.
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It was not immediately clear who would have been behind an attack, but France has recently seen a spate of dramatic assaults by jihadist groups, including the Islamic State group which straddles Iraq and Syria. As often happens in situations like these, some information reported early may turn out to be inaccurate.
