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| Nice attack: Two people arrested by French police | Nice attack: Two people arrested by French police |
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| A man and a woman have been arrested in Nice in connection with the Bastille Day lorry attack, French judicial sources have said. | A man and a woman have been arrested in Nice in connection with the Bastille Day lorry attack, French judicial sources have said. |
| More than 80 people died when a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, ploughed the vehicle into celebrating crowds on Thursday evening. | More than 80 people died when a Tunisian man, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, ploughed the vehicle into celebrating crowds on Thursday evening. |
| Earlier, France called up 12,000 police reservists to help boost security in the wake of the killings. | |
| The latest arrests bring the number of those held over the attack to seven. | |
| The driver was shot dead by police when his vehicle's path along the seafront Promenade des Anglais was eventually halted. | |
| A source close to the investigation told French news agency AFP that the killer had visited the area on the previous two days to prepare for the attack. | |
| Those detained by French police include Lahouaiej-Bouhlel's estranged wife. The others have not been identified. | |
| French President Francois Hollande has called the attack terrorism and officials have said investigators will seek to find out whether the Tunisian had links with extremist groups. | |
| French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel seemed to have been "radicalised very quickly". | |
| So-called Islamic State said the attacker was acting in response to its calls to target civilians in countries that are part of the anti-IS coalition. |