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#Islamicterrorist #Attck in #France
A van ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the #French Riviera city of Nice on Thursday, injuring several people and sparking panic in what local officials said could be an attack.
Security forces and ambulances raced to the scene, and authorities from the local Alpes-Maritimes prefecture urged residents to stay indoors.
An AFP reporter described seeing a white van driving at high speed onto the famed 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 city's famed 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 2330 GMT, another AFP correspondent said.
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The religion of peace people strikes again, Radical Islam attacks France
A long white truck ran into a crowd of people in Nice, France, on Bastille Day, killing "probably" 30 people and injuring 100 more, a local prefecture official told CNN.
One witness, an American who was about 15 feet from the truck, said the driver pointed his tractor trailer into the crowd, mowing bodies over.
A CNN affiliate in France, BFM-TV, reported police exchanged gunfire with people in the truck.
Here are the latest developments in the tragedy:
• Maryam Violet, a witness, said she was walking along the beach and saw "a ton of people on the ground and on the sidewalk." "You could see someone with a bike or a wheelchair and someone with a bag full of flowers, innocent and normal people on the beach."
• French President Francois Hollande is returning to Paris from Avignon for emergency talks at the Interior Ministry after the mass casualty incident in Nice, according to French national radio.
• Facebook has activated the Safety Check feature for people in and around the area of the attack.
• An American witness at the scene said the driver of the truck was mowing bodies over, and that he appeared to accelerate as he hit those bodies. The witness said he saw only the driver. He heard gunfire as he ran away, but did not know its source. It seemed like an accident at first, but it became apparent very quickly that it was deliberate, the witness told CNN.
• BFM posted an image of the truck that reportedly was involved in the incident. The photo shows what appears to be bullet holes in the windshield of the white truck.
• Christian Estrosi, the head of the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, said late Thursday: "Dear Nice residents, the driver of a truck appears to have caused tens of deaths. Stay for the moment in your homes. More info to come."
