WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
Fireworks were filling the night sky as the crowds enjoyed July 14th, which is French National Holiday when gunshots rang out in the air and a gun man mowed down several people. The total number of the dead is now 80, with 18 people in intensive care units and several hundreds injured.
The identity documents belonging to a 31-year-old French Tunisian were later found in the bullet-riddled truck after the gunman was shot dead by police marksmen, while he was driving the truck and still tring to take more lives, security sources said.
The security source said: 'The identification of the truck driver is still underway.' The recovered papers indicate the man is a resident of Nice.
The attacker behind the wheel drove the truck into the crowd on Nice's Promenade des Anglais during Bastille Day celebrations. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
The attacker was shot dead after ramming the lorry through the festive crowd for two kilometres, sending hundreds of people fleeing in terror and leaving the area strewn with bodies. [Ciaran Fahey/AP]
A photograph showing the front of the truck riddled with bullet holes. [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]
'There was carnage on the road,' Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native, told the Associated Press news agency. 'Bodies everywhere'. [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]
People cross the street with their hands on their heads as a French soldier secures the area. [Jean-Pierre Amet/Reuters]
The attack is the third mass killing in France in less than 18 months. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
Wounded people are evacuated from the scene. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
Workers arrange fences at the Promenade Des Anglais, near the scene of the attack. [Luca Bruno/AP]
The identity documents belonging to a 31-year-old French Tunisian were later found in the bullet-riddled truck after the gunman was shot dead by police marksmen, while he was driving the truck and still tring to take more lives, security sources said.
The security source said: 'The identification of the truck driver is still underway.' The recovered papers indicate the man is a resident of Nice.
The attacker behind the wheel drove the truck into the crowd on Nice's Promenade des Anglais during Bastille Day celebrations. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
The attacker was shot dead after ramming the lorry through the festive crowd for two kilometres, sending hundreds of people fleeing in terror and leaving the area strewn with bodies. [Ciaran Fahey/AP]
A photograph showing the front of the truck riddled with bullet holes. [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]
'There was carnage on the road,' Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native, told the Associated Press news agency. 'Bodies everywhere'. [Eric Gaillard/Reuters]
People cross the street with their hands on their heads as a French soldier secures the area. [Jean-Pierre Amet/Reuters]
The attack is the third mass killing in France in less than 18 months. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
Wounded people are evacuated from the scene. [Olivier Anrigo/EPA]
Workers arrange fences at the Promenade Des Anglais, near the scene of the attack. [Luca Bruno/AP]
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