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DEVELOPING: 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.
Regional president Christian Estrosi confirmed the death toll in a post on Twitter, calling Thursday "the worst tragedy in the history of Nice." Estrosi also asked residents to stay indoors immediately following the attack.
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French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said the truck driver had been "neutralized" and an investigation would confirm whether he had acted alone.
A police spokeswoman, Sylvie Toffin, confirmed the incident was deliberate, telling the Associated Press, "It's an attack." A local government official told Fox News that the truck was driving full speed when it hit the crowd.
A witness, Wassim Bouhlel, told the Associated Press that he saw the truck drive into the crowd, then witnessed the driver emerge with a gun and start shooting.
"There was carnage on the road," Bouhlel said. "Bodies everywhere."
Estrosi confirmed to BFM TV that the driver fired on the crowd before being killed by police.
Nice's public prosecutor told reporters early Friday that bodies of the victims were scattered for over a mile along the Promenade des Anglais, a major thoroughfare along the Mediterranean Sea.
Sebastien Humbert, a regional police prefect, told BFM TV the truck traveled "over a long distance, which explains this extremely heavy toll."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but but France has recently seen a spate of dramatic assaults from by jihadist groups, including the Islamic State group (ISIS) which straddles Iraq and Syria.
A U.S. official told Fox News that U.S. Homeland Security Jeh Johnson had been briefed on the attack. The official added that the attack was in line with ISIS, which has become "increasingly brazen" in its attacks as it comes under increasing military pressure in Iraq and Syria.
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The attack happened at around 10:30 p.m. local time. A witness, identified only as Chloe, told FranceTV Info, "We heard gunfire, a lot. A crowd came to us and told us to run ... We went into a tapas bar and hid in the bathroom for half an hour.
"We went out and again we heard people running and saying 'truck, truck,' so we hid in the bathroom for an hour. The manager took us out by the back door and then I went home."
The Nice-Matin newspaper quoted one of its reporters as saying the truck driver "mounted onto the Prom and he drove on everyone." The reporter added, "people are running, it's panic."
The paper later posted an image of the truck on Twitter, captioning it, "The truck that drove into the crowd."
July 14 is a national holiday in France that commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris and the start of the French Revolution.
Fox News' Catherine Herridge and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/0...drives-into-bastille-day-crowd-in-france.html
Try not to be too gleeful about a new chance to smear an entire religion because of a tiny subset.of course the "religion of peace". They need to be stopped permanently
Whose heads are "in the sand" do you think?Death toll now at 84! When will we take our heads out of the sand?
Try not to be too gleeful about a new chance to smear an entire religion because of a tiny subset.
80 people DID die...
Getting real sick of this nonsense.You mean the "tiny subset" that has been responsible for countless attacks and thousands of deaths? You can continue to make excuses for them and bury your head in the sand but the fact remains that Islamic terror IS a real problem and people will continue to die until we start being honest about what's going on.
*Crickets*But ok, I'll bite. You say "people will continue to die until we start being honest about what's going on." What do you think could have been done differently that would have stopped the Nice terrorist attack?
*Crickets*
Getting real sick of this nonsense.
No one has said Islamic terrorism ISN'T a real problem. No one is making excuses for "them," either. But conflating all of Islam with radical, violent Islam does more harm than good.
French Islam does seem to be more radicalised than in other comparable European countries and they do have a problem with integration.
Really? Sweden tries to keep it a secrets, but it is the rape capital of Europe, and Google about the issues German is facing.
I live in Germany and we have had nothing compared to the 3 major terrorism incidents seen in France this last 18 months. France sends more jihadists out to Islams wars than any of the other big 3 European countries. There is a deep divide between the Muslims that live in France and the normal French people. This divide and the failure at attempts to integrate lie in the background of this, only the latest of a number of incidents. That said we all stand with the French against the evil that attacks them.
Interesting. There many be more conflict because the French people are fed up, vs the Swedish people who can't seem to get enough abuse.
My hope is that the naiveté will cease, so that the world can join together in ending this terror.
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