Tunisian ‘terrorist’ kills 84 in Nice truck attackNICE, France: Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Friday called the man who rammed his truck into a crowd in Nice a “terrorist” with probable links to radical Islam, as France plunged into mourning for the 84 people killed in the attack. Hollande said many foreigners were among the dead and injured in what he described as a “terrorist attack”. The attack left a scene of carnage on Nice’s picturesque Promenade des Anglais, with mangled bodies strewn over the palm-fringed walkway. The country has been in a state of emergency since November with heightened security, but the Nice carnage showed how vulnerable it remains to attack. Photographs after the carnage showed the truck, which had been hired on Monday, with its front badly damaged and riddled with bullet holes.

Source: Manila Times July 16, 2016 00:33 UTC