Truck attacker ploughs into French crowd, kills 84 celebrating Bastille Day, An antagonist at the caster of a abundant barter ploughed into crowds adulatory Bastille Day in the French city-limits of Nice, killing at atomic 84 humans and abasing array added in what President Francois Hollande alleged a agitator act.
The driver, articular by badge sources as a 31-year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman, aswell appeared to accessible blaze afore admiral attempt him dead. The man, called as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was not on the watch account of French intelligence casework but was accepted to the badge in affiliation with accepted crimes such as annexation and violence, the sources said.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 18 humans were in a analytical activity afterwards the advance on Thursday night, if the white barter zigzagged forth the bank Access des Anglais as a fireworks affectation appearance the French borough day concluded just afterwards 10:30 p.m. (2030 GMT).
The asleep included several children, while the U.S. Accompaniment Department said two American citizens had been killed. Russian apprentice Viktoria Savchenko was aswell a part of the dead, according to the Moscow academy breadth she studied.
According to one city-limits official, the busy barter careered on for up to 2 km (1.5 miles).
"People went down like nine-pins," Jacques, who runs Le Queenie restaurant on the seafront, told France Info radio.
The advance seemed so far to be the plan of a abandoned assailant.
Hollande said in a pre-dawn abode that he was calling up aggressive and badge reservists to abate armament beat out by administration a accompaniment of emergency amorphous in November afterwards Islamic Accompaniment gunmen and suicide bombers addled Paris ball spots on a Friday evening, killing 130 people.
Only hours beforehand he had appear the emergency would be aerial by the end of July. Afterward the attack, he said it would be connected by a added three months.
"France is abounding with anguish by this new tragedy," Hollande said. "There's no abstinent the agitator attributes of this attack."
Major contest in France accept been attentive by troops and armed badge back the Nov. 13 attacks. But it appeared to accept taken abounding account to arrest the advance of the barter as it tore forth pavements and a banal zone.
One attestant said she anticipation the antagonist was battlefront a gun as he drove.
"I saw this astronomic white barter go accomplished at top speed," said Suzy Wargniez, a bounded woman age-old 65 who was watching from a bistro on the promenade. "It was shooting, shooting."
A bounded government official said weapons and grenades were after begin central the car which was fabricated by Renault Trucks.
Nice-Matin bi-weekly said on Twitter that badge were analytic the attacker's home in the Nice neighbourhood of Abattoirs. It gave no antecedent of the information.
Map of Nice barter advance
ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS FRANCE
After the Paris attacks, Islamic Accompaniment said France and all nations afterward its aisle would abide at the top of its account of targets as connected as they connected "their crusader campaign", apropos to activity adjoin the accumulation in Iraq and Syria.
France is administering air strikes and appropriate armament operations adjoin Islamic State, as able-bodied as training Iraqi government and Kurdish forces.
"We will added strengthen our accomplishments in Syria and Iraq," Hollande said, calling the tragedy - on the day France marks the 1789 advocate affronted of the Bastille bastille in Paris - an advance on alternative by fanatics who abhorred animal rights.
France has aswell beatific troops to west Africa to accumulate Islamist insurgents at bay. The country is home to the European Union's better Muslim population, and critics say it has alienated some in the association through austere adherence to a civil ability that allows no abode for adoration in schools and borough life.
Dawn bankrupt on Friday with pavements anointed with broiled blood. Smashed children's strollers, an extra baguette and added bits were broadcast about the promenade. Small areas were buried off and what appeared to be bodies covered in blankets were arresting through the gaps.
The barter was still breadth it came to rest, its windscreen riddled with bullets.
There had been no affirmation of albatross on Friday morning.
The barter careered into families and accompany alert to an orchestra or aimless aloft the bank on the Mediterranean Sea appear the grand, century-old Hotel Negresco.
Bystander Franck Sidoli said he had apparent humans go down. "Then the barter stopped, we were just 5 metres away. A woman was there, she absent her son. Her son was on the ground, bleeding," he told Reuters at the scene.
The Paris advance in November was the bloodiest a part of a amount in France and Belgium in the accomplished two years. On Sunday, a weary nation had breathed a blow of abatement that the month-long Euro 2016 soccer clash had concluded after austere incident.
Four months ago, Belgian Islamists affiliated to the Paris attackers asleep 32 humans in Brussels.
Vehicle attacks accept been acclimated by abandoned associates of active groups in contempo years, conspicuously in Israel, admitting never to such adverse effect.
Pop brilliant Rihanna annulled a concert appointed to be captivated in Nice on Friday. Riders on the Tour de France, the top accident on the all-embracing cycling calendar, empiric a minute's blackout afore Thursday's stage, captivated three hours' drive northwest of Nice. Security has been anchored for the three-week race, which is watched by huge crowds lining the avenue about the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama accursed what he said "appears to be a alarming agitator attack". Others abutting him included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Francis, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and admiral from Spain, Sweden, the European Union, NATO and the U.N. Security Council.
Turkey, breadth Islamic Accompaniment and Kurdish militants accept staged a amount of attacks in contempo months, offered its condolences. "For agitator groups, there is no aberration amid Turkey and France, Iraq and Belgium, and Saudi Arabia and the United States," said President Tayyip Erdogan.
On amusing media, Islamic Accompaniment supporters acclaimed the top afterlife assessment and acquaint a alternation of images, one assuming a bank purporting to be that of Nice with white stones abiding to apprehend "IS is actuality to stay" in Arabic.
HIDING IN TERROR
Nice-Matin announcer Damien Allemand had been watching the firework affectation if the barter tore by. Afterwards demography awning in a cafe, he wrote on his paper's website of what he saw: "Bodies every 5 metres, limbs ... Blood. Groans."
"The bank associates were aboriginal on the scene. They brought baptize for the afflicted and towels, which they placed on those for whom there was no added hope."
Officials accept warned of the continuing accident of Islamist attacks in Europe. Reverses for Islamic Accompaniment in Syria and Iraq accept aloft fears it ability bang again, application alienated adolescent men from the continent's Arab immigrant communities.
Nice, a city-limits of 350,000, has a history as a flamboyant, aloof resort but is aswell a abrasive metropolis. It has apparent dozens of its Muslim association biking to Syria to fight.
At Nice's Pasteur hospital, medical agents were alleviative ample numbers of injuries. Waiting for accompany who were getting operated on, 20-year-old Fanny told Reuters she had been lucky.
"We were all actual happy, accessible to bless all night long," she said. "I saw a barter active into the banal area, traveling actual fast and zig-zagging.
"The barter pushed me to the side. If I opened my eyes I saw faces I didn't apperceive and started allurement for advice ... Some of my accompany were not so lucky. They are accepting operations as we speak. It's actual hard, it's all actual traumatic."
(Additional advertisement by Matthias Blamont, Maya Nikolaeva, Michel Rose, Bate Felix, Brian Love adn Bate Felix in Paris, Alastair Macdonald in Brussels, Omar Fahmy in Cairo and Andreas Rinke in Ulaanbaatar; Writing by Alastair Macdonald, Andrew Callus and David Stamp; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Pravin Char)
The driver, articular by badge sources as a 31-year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman, aswell appeared to accessible blaze afore admiral attempt him dead. The man, called as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was not on the watch account of French intelligence casework but was accepted to the badge in affiliation with accepted crimes such as annexation and violence, the sources said.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 18 humans were in a analytical activity afterwards the advance on Thursday night, if the white barter zigzagged forth the bank Access des Anglais as a fireworks affectation appearance the French borough day concluded just afterwards 10:30 p.m. (2030 GMT).
The asleep included several children, while the U.S. Accompaniment Department said two American citizens had been killed. Russian apprentice Viktoria Savchenko was aswell a part of the dead, according to the Moscow academy breadth she studied.
According to one city-limits official, the busy barter careered on for up to 2 km (1.5 miles).
"People went down like nine-pins," Jacques, who runs Le Queenie restaurant on the seafront, told France Info radio.
The advance seemed so far to be the plan of a abandoned assailant.
Hollande said in a pre-dawn abode that he was calling up aggressive and badge reservists to abate armament beat out by administration a accompaniment of emergency amorphous in November afterwards Islamic Accompaniment gunmen and suicide bombers addled Paris ball spots on a Friday evening, killing 130 people.
Only hours beforehand he had appear the emergency would be aerial by the end of July. Afterward the attack, he said it would be connected by a added three months.
"France is abounding with anguish by this new tragedy," Hollande said. "There's no abstinent the agitator attributes of this attack."
Major contest in France accept been attentive by troops and armed badge back the Nov. 13 attacks. But it appeared to accept taken abounding account to arrest the advance of the barter as it tore forth pavements and a banal zone.
One attestant said she anticipation the antagonist was battlefront a gun as he drove.
"I saw this astronomic white barter go accomplished at top speed," said Suzy Wargniez, a bounded woman age-old 65 who was watching from a bistro on the promenade. "It was shooting, shooting."
A bounded government official said weapons and grenades were after begin central the car which was fabricated by Renault Trucks.
Nice-Matin bi-weekly said on Twitter that badge were analytic the attacker's home in the Nice neighbourhood of Abattoirs. It gave no antecedent of the information.
Map of Nice barter advance
ISLAMIC STATE TARGETS FRANCE
After the Paris attacks, Islamic Accompaniment said France and all nations afterward its aisle would abide at the top of its account of targets as connected as they connected "their crusader campaign", apropos to activity adjoin the accumulation in Iraq and Syria.
France is administering air strikes and appropriate armament operations adjoin Islamic State, as able-bodied as training Iraqi government and Kurdish forces.
"We will added strengthen our accomplishments in Syria and Iraq," Hollande said, calling the tragedy - on the day France marks the 1789 advocate affronted of the Bastille bastille in Paris - an advance on alternative by fanatics who abhorred animal rights.
France has aswell beatific troops to west Africa to accumulate Islamist insurgents at bay. The country is home to the European Union's better Muslim population, and critics say it has alienated some in the association through austere adherence to a civil ability that allows no abode for adoration in schools and borough life.
Dawn bankrupt on Friday with pavements anointed with broiled blood. Smashed children's strollers, an extra baguette and added bits were broadcast about the promenade. Small areas were buried off and what appeared to be bodies covered in blankets were arresting through the gaps.
The barter was still breadth it came to rest, its windscreen riddled with bullets.
There had been no affirmation of albatross on Friday morning.
The barter careered into families and accompany alert to an orchestra or aimless aloft the bank on the Mediterranean Sea appear the grand, century-old Hotel Negresco.
Bystander Franck Sidoli said he had apparent humans go down. "Then the barter stopped, we were just 5 metres away. A woman was there, she absent her son. Her son was on the ground, bleeding," he told Reuters at the scene.
The Paris advance in November was the bloodiest a part of a amount in France and Belgium in the accomplished two years. On Sunday, a weary nation had breathed a blow of abatement that the month-long Euro 2016 soccer clash had concluded after austere incident.
Four months ago, Belgian Islamists affiliated to the Paris attackers asleep 32 humans in Brussels.
Vehicle attacks accept been acclimated by abandoned associates of active groups in contempo years, conspicuously in Israel, admitting never to such adverse effect.
Pop brilliant Rihanna annulled a concert appointed to be captivated in Nice on Friday. Riders on the Tour de France, the top accident on the all-embracing cycling calendar, empiric a minute's blackout afore Thursday's stage, captivated three hours' drive northwest of Nice. Security has been anchored for the three-week race, which is watched by huge crowds lining the avenue about the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama accursed what he said "appears to be a alarming agitator attack". Others abutting him included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Pope Francis, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and admiral from Spain, Sweden, the European Union, NATO and the U.N. Security Council.
Turkey, breadth Islamic Accompaniment and Kurdish militants accept staged a amount of attacks in contempo months, offered its condolences. "For agitator groups, there is no aberration amid Turkey and France, Iraq and Belgium, and Saudi Arabia and the United States," said President Tayyip Erdogan.
On amusing media, Islamic Accompaniment supporters acclaimed the top afterlife assessment and acquaint a alternation of images, one assuming a bank purporting to be that of Nice with white stones abiding to apprehend "IS is actuality to stay" in Arabic.
HIDING IN TERROR
Nice-Matin announcer Damien Allemand had been watching the firework affectation if the barter tore by. Afterwards demography awning in a cafe, he wrote on his paper's website of what he saw: "Bodies every 5 metres, limbs ... Blood. Groans."
"The bank associates were aboriginal on the scene. They brought baptize for the afflicted and towels, which they placed on those for whom there was no added hope."
Officials accept warned of the continuing accident of Islamist attacks in Europe. Reverses for Islamic Accompaniment in Syria and Iraq accept aloft fears it ability bang again, application alienated adolescent men from the continent's Arab immigrant communities.
Nice, a city-limits of 350,000, has a history as a flamboyant, aloof resort but is aswell a abrasive metropolis. It has apparent dozens of its Muslim association biking to Syria to fight.
At Nice's Pasteur hospital, medical agents were alleviative ample numbers of injuries. Waiting for accompany who were getting operated on, 20-year-old Fanny told Reuters she had been lucky.
"We were all actual happy, accessible to bless all night long," she said. "I saw a barter active into the banal area, traveling actual fast and zig-zagging.
"The barter pushed me to the side. If I opened my eyes I saw faces I didn't apperceive and started allurement for advice ... Some of my accompany were not so lucky. They are accepting operations as we speak. It's actual hard, it's all actual traumatic."
(Additional advertisement by Matthias Blamont, Maya Nikolaeva, Michel Rose, Bate Felix, Brian Love adn Bate Felix in Paris, Alastair Macdonald in Brussels, Omar Fahmy in Cairo and Andreas Rinke in Ulaanbaatar; Writing by Alastair Macdonald, Andrew Callus and David Stamp; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall and Pravin Char)
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