Plowed a truck full of weapons and grenade a bustling resort of Nice on Thursday night, killing 84 people and injuring more than 100 others.

President Francois Hollande called the '' terrorist attack "happened while watching the Bastille Day fireworks victims.

Shot and killed the driver after RAM truck in the middle of wasting people lining the Promenade des Anglais, prompting a startling race two kilometer plow truck after left hundreds of persons dead and wounded.

"All we see is this truck along the boardwalk, just plowing through people, just bodies getting hit and people running in all directions," said witness Tony Molina on CNN. He added that following the pananagasa, heard successive gunshots.

Authorities said they found identity papers owned by 31-year-old French citizen of Tunisian-truck, as well as small and long arms. The driver of the truck was a resident of Nice, according to the newspaper Nice Matin.

In televised national address Friday, Hollande called the attacks '' undeniable terrorist nature ", in conjunction with the declaration extending the state of emergency would end on July 26, three more months because of what happened in Nice.

He confirmed that several children were among those killed in the merger of the family to celebrate the national day of France. Labinwalo the injured is critical.

The bloodshed occurred on Bastille Day, a celebration of all that is precious in France, a secular republic and its values ​​of 'Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite' '(Freedom, Equality, Fraternity).

This is the third largest attack against France for nearly 18 months and said that prosecutors held by anti-terrorist investigators investigation.

"We are in a war with terrorists who want to strike us at any price and in a very violent way," said France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.


Advised the Philippine Consulate in Paris Filipinos living and visiting in France, specifically in Nice, caution and if possible stay in their homes or hotels, after the Bastille Day attack.

In a radio interview, said Aileen Mendiola-Rau, Philippine consul general in Paris, they have not yet received any report if there are Filipinos among the dead. Continued beneberipika French authorities the details of the victims.
 
Top