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| Dozens feared dead after truck drives into crowd in Nice | |
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| A truck has crashed into a crowd gathered for France’s Bastille Day fireworks on the seafront of the southern city of Nice, French media have reported. | A truck has crashed into a crowd gathered for France’s Bastille Day fireworks on the seafront of the southern city of Nice, French media have reported. |
| The sub-prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes, Sébastien Humbert, told French rolling news channel BFM TV: “The death toll is extremely high.” | |
| He spoke of “maybe 30 dead in Nice” and 100 injured. He said a truck had ploughed into a crowd over a long distance on the beachfront Promenade des Anglais “which explains the extremely high toll”. | |
| He added that there had been an exchange of gunfire and the truck driver had been killed. He described it as “a criminal event”. He told residents to avoid the centre of Nice. | |
| Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native who spoke to the Associated Press near Nice’s Promenade du Paillon, said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting. “There was carnage on the road,” Bouhlel said. “Bodies everywhere.” | |
| “People are running, it’s panic,” a local newspaper journalist from Nice-Matin was reported saying. “There is blood, no doubt injuries.” | “People are running, it’s panic,” a local newspaper journalist from Nice-Matin was reported saying. “There is blood, no doubt injuries.” |
| Security forces and ambulances raced to the scene, and authorities from the local Alpes-Maritimes prefecture urged residents to stay indoors. | |
| A reporter for the French news agency AFP described seeing a white vehicle driving at high speed on to the Promenade des Anglais as people were leaving after the annual Bastille Day celebration display. | |
| “We saw people hit and bits of debris flying around,” he said, adding that the incident took place near the Hotel Negresco. | |
| Terrified pedestrians screamed as they fled the area. “It was absolute chaos,” he said. | |
| A huge security cordon was established, closing off the central Place Massena by 23.30 GMT, AFP added. | |
| President of the Regional Council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Christian Estrosi, tweeted that a “truck-driver appeared to have killed dozens of people”. He told Nice residents: “Stay at home”. | |
| Cher niçois, le chauffeur d'un camion semble avoir fait des dizaines de morts. Restez pour le moment à votre domicile. Plus d'infos à venir | Cher niçois, le chauffeur d'un camion semble avoir fait des dizaines de morts. Restez pour le moment à votre domicile. Plus d'infos à venir |
| BFM TV said President François Hollande was returning to Paris from the city of Avignon to hold a crisis meeting at the interior ministry. | |
| The French environment minister Ségolène Royal tweeted her “distress and saddened solidarity with the victims in Nice and all the peope of Nice”. | |
| This is a breaking news story. More details to follow… | This is a breaking news story. More details to follow… |