Truck attacker kills over 70 in Nice Bastille Day crowd

Zaac · Jul 14, 2016

Truck attacker kills over 70 in Nice Bastille Day crowd

NICE, France (Reuters) - An attacker killed at least 73 people and injured scores when he drove a truck at high speed into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, local media quoted officials as saying.

Police shot and killed the driver, who drove the heavy, long-distance truck at speed for well over 100 meters (yards) along the famed Promenade des Anglais seafront, hitting the mass of spectators late in the evening, regional official Sebastien Humbert told France Info radio.

The man had opened fire on the crowd, local government chief Christian Estrosi told BFM TV, and weapons and grenades were found inside the truck after he was killed.

"It's a scene of horror," local member of parliament Eric Ciotti told France Info, saying the truck had sped along the pavement fronting the Mediterranean, before being stopped by police after "mowing down several hundred people".

Local broadcasters quoted officials as saying the preliminary death toll was 73. Other officials put the number of wounded as high as in the hundreds.

Humbert described it as a clear criminal attack, although the driver was not yet identified. Residents of the Mediterranean city close to the Italian border were advised to stay indoors. There was no sign of any other attack.

Almost exactly eight months ago Islamic State militants killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13, the bloodiest in a number of attacks in France and Belgium in the past two years. On Sunday, France had breathed a sigh of relief as the month-long Euro 2016 soccer tournament ended without a feared attack.

Police denied rumors on social media of a subsequent hostage-taking. Vehicle attacks have been used by isolated members of militant groups in recent years, notably in Israel, as well as in Europe, though never to such devastating effect.

HIDING IN TERROR

One woman told France Info she and others had fled in terror: "The lorry came zig-zagging along the street. We ran into a hotel and hid in the toilets with lots of people."

Another woman told the station she was sheltering in a restaurant on the promenade with some 200 other people, where things had calmed down about two hours after the incident.

Nice-Matin journalist Damien Allemand reported from the scene as events unfolded: "People are running. It's panic. He rode up onto the Prom and piled into the crowd ... There are people covered in blood. There must be many injured."

The paper published a photograph of a damaged, long-distance delivery truck, which it said was riddled with bullets and images of emergency services treating the injured. Social media carried images of those hit lying apparently lifeless in pools of blood, prompting police to ask people to stop such posts.

Regional government chief Estrosi has warned in the past of the risk of Islamist attacks in the region, following Islamic State bloodshed in Paris and Brussels over the past 18 months.

The city, with a population of some 350,000 and a history as a flamboyant but also gritty metropolis in the sun, has seen some of its Muslim residents travel to Syria to fight, a path taken by previous Islamic State attackers in Europe.

French President Francois Hollande, who was in the south of France at the time of the attack but raced back to Paris to the national crisis center, had hours earlier said that a state of emergency put in place after the Paris attacks in November would not be extended when it expires on July 26.

"We can't extend the state of emergency indefinitely, it would make no sense. That would mean we're no longer a republic with the rule of law applied in all circumstances," Hollande told journalists in a traditional Bastille Day interview.

His interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, was expected in Nice overnight, a source in the ministry said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/truck-plows-crowd-nice-france-many-injured-paper-213412656.html
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JESUS!!!

777 · Jul 14, 2016

The entire world has gone crazy. Warning, some of the pictures in the link below are graphic:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html

75 now reportedly dead.

carpro · Jul 14, 2016

Another Muslim on the rampage. Is anybody surprised?

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Jkdbuck76 · Jul 14, 2016

Sad. :-(

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Smyth · Jul 14, 2016

Everyone, you should be happy to know that France's strict gun laws are working! A mass shooting was avoided today.

Smyth · Jul 14, 2016

How are France's tight gun laws working to prevent mass killings?

carpro · Jul 14, 2016

Smyth said: ↑

Everyone, you should be happy to know that France's strict gun laws are working! A mass shooting was avoided today.
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Evidently it was a matter of choice for the Islamic killer. The truck reportedly had guns and explosives in it.

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Smyth · Jul 14, 2016

carpro said: ↑

Evidently it was a matter of choice for the Islamic killer. The truck reportedly had guns and explosives in it.
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Then the gun laws didn't work so well, after all?

Zaac · Jul 14, 2016

Smyth said: ↑

Then the gun laws didn't work so well, after all?
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Yes because everybody knows that when a terrorist strikes you want to have everyone armed and firing so that they can risk getting shot by the cops too.

MsGuidedAngel · Jul 15, 2016

This is very evil and sickening of this muslim who killed 80 people and at least two USA Americans!!

Please Pray for All our Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus ( Yeshua ) Everyday!! "Pray Without Ceasing." ( I Thessalonians 5:17 KJV )!!

Our True God's Love is STRONGER than satans hate and lies!!

Our True God's Love is From Heaven Above through His Son Jesus ( Yeshua ) Christ Forevermore!!

Love Always and Shalom ( Peace ) Everyone, YSIC \o/

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Smyth · Jul 15, 2016

MsGuidedAngel said: ↑

This is very evil and sickening of this muslim who killed 80 people and at least two USA Americans!!
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Statistically, we can guess that the truck driver was Muslim. Still, it's prejudice to assume a Muslim, a kind of prejudice that wouldn't be tolerated against other groups like blacks, Jews, and homosexuals.

The real sin isn't the statistically reasonable assumption of Islamic militancy, it's the self-defeating response of Islamophobes. We're just going to take away more of our freedoms at home and drive more Muslim refugees from the middle-east to the west. Crooked Hillary is already plotting exponential growth of the police state and more bombing of Arabs, to the salivation of the RATs (Republicans Against Trump).

Smyth · Jul 15, 2016

99% chance the attacker is Muslim.

Smyth · Jul 15, 2016

Remember when Bush explained 9/11 by saying "they hate us for our freedom"?

The French president explained the truck attack on France, because France has "freedom as a fundamental value."

Don't you people have any pride? I mean enough pride you don't want your leaders feeding you rank nonsense?

InTheLight · Jul 15, 2016

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Don't you people have any pride? I mean enough pride you don't want your leaders feeding you rank nonsense?
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Who are you taking to? Is anyone having a conversation with you?

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