International News Articles: Speeding truck drove into the crowd. At least 80 killed, including children

Thursday, July 14, 2016

Speeding truck drove into the crowd. At least 80 killed, including children – TVN24

speeding truck entered on Thursday evening in a crowd of people on the promenade in Nice. The head of the French Ministry of the Interior reported that 80 people died. Many were wounded, including 18 people are in critical condition. Earlier, French President Francois Holland said that among the victims is “a lot of children.” He added that the bloody attack was terrorist in nature. On TVN24 and TVN 24 BIS last special editions.

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The incident took place on Thursday night after the local celebration of the national holiday Bastille Day.

speeding vehicle then drove into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais, the fireworks show – recounted on TVN24 Krystyna, who had witnessed the incident. Truck drove through the crowd of two kilometers.

The striker gave later shots at people on the spot panic.

Photos published by news agencies show a white truck with a windshield pierced bullets, probably fired by police

Deputy mayor of Nice and President of the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur, Christian Estrosi, described the attack as the biggest tragedy in the history of the city.

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the reports about the fate of Poles in Nice tracks on a regular basis and collects Polish consulate in Lyon.

– We are waiting for detailed information. At the moment we have no information about the Poles – said on TVN24 Rafal Sobczak from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He added that the French authorities do not know how far the nationality of the victims.

Contact numbers is 0033 680425917 (consulate in Lyon) and 0033 680 580 220 (the Polish Embassy in Paris).

striker “neutralized”

Local authorities confirmed that the bomber was shot. As reported French media, in the truck found documents man indicating that the 31-year-old lived in Nice and was the origin of the Franco-Tunisian.

– has been neutralized by the police, is dead – told AFP a spokesman for the French Interior Ministry.

the spokesman denied reported by some media information that the attack took the driver hostage. – Nothing like that happened – he said.

Police are trying to determine whether he acted alone or had accomplices who managed to escape.

Local prefecture considers the event not as an accident, a targeted attack. Mer Nice appealed on Twitter for residents to stay in their homes.

According to the witness, who spoke with the agency Associated Press, a truck driver after a stoppage got out and opened fire with automatic weapons.

in turn, the French daily “Le Figaro” reported by your local source of information that the truck was found guns and grenades. This information confirmed by local authorities.

He gathered up the Crisis

The agency AFP reported that after the attack in Nice, French President Francois Hollande has returned from Avignon to Paris to take part in a meeting of the crisis staff at the headquarters of the Interior Ministry. Earlier Hollande spoke with the head of the French government and the minister of the interior.

On Thursday – before the attack – Hollande announced the end of a state of emergency, which was extended since the attacks in Paris, which took place in November last year.

Author: ts / I / PAP, Reuters