At least 80 dead in France truck attack in Nice

An attacker killed up to 80 people and injured scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said.

Counter-terrorist investigators were seeking to identify the driver, who a local government official said opened fire before police shot him dead. The official said weapons and grenades were found inside the 25-tonne, unmarked truck.

The attack, which came eight months and a day after ISIS gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris, appeared so far to be the work of a lone assailant.

Newspaper Nice-Matin quoted unidentified sources as saying the driver was a 31-year-old local of Tunisian origin.

The truck careered for hundreds of metres (yards) along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront, slamming into spectators, among them children, who were watching the fireworks, listening to an orchestra or strolling above the beach towards the grand, century-old Hotel Negresco...
 [alarabiya.net]
15/7/16