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'Up to 30 77 Dead' After Truck Crashes Into Crowd At Bastille Day Celebrations In Nice 'Terror Attack'
2016-07-15
Liveblog of events and reports as they were released, with videos, from the Telegraph.
July 14th at 7:15 pm ET:

At least 73 people were killed and about 100 injured on Thursday night when a lorry drove into a crowd of Bastille Day revellers in an apparent terrorist attack in Nice, David Chazan reports.

A gunman reportedly got out of the lorry and fired into the crowd on the seafront Promenade des Anglais, an area popular with tourists in the Riviera resort, leaving dead and injured people lying in the street.

He was shot dead by police but there were reports that an accomplice had fled and that guns and grenades were found in the lorry.

The local Prefecture described the slaughter as a “terrorist attack” but an interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said it was too early to be certain of the killers’ motives.

July 14th at 9:35 p.m. ET:

  • 77 people reported killed
  • Counter-terrorist investigators leading the probe
  • Driver 'was 31-year-old man from Nice of Tunisian origin'

    July 14th at 11:00 p.m. ET:

  • Death toll now at least 80; 20-plus are critically injured
  • Several of the dead are young children
  • Driver screamed "Allah Akbar" at crowd as he exited truck
  • Luxury Negresco Hotel turned into makeshift hospital ward

    July 14th at 11:30 p.m. ET:

  • Vehicle speeds for 2km through busy crowd

    July 15th at 8:30 am ET:

  • Driver was Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31-year-old delivery driver
  • Described as "weird loner" who "became depressed" when his wife left him
  • French passport holder, lived in Nice
  • Known to the police for violence and using weapons, many arrests in past
  • No "direct links" with terrorism

    Live updates from the Guardian here.

    Thursday night update from WaPo here.

    Continuing Sky News updates here.

    Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection is collecting live tweets.
    • Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660

    #26  Obviously, the French need better truck control laws.
    Posted by: Dave D.   2016-07-15 16:59  

    #25  I have a better idea. For every victim of terror in the Western World we take over an oilfield in Saudi Arabia.
    Posted by: European Conservative   2016-07-15 16:57  

    #24  waiting for the Obama administration to tally the deaths as 'vehicular' instead of terrorism.
    Posted by: Airandee   2016-07-15 16:54  

    #23  OK guys, take the gloves off.

    1) basically bulldoze a large area of Syria on the iraq border big enough for a camp the size of Kuwait.
    2) build a wall/fence around it.
    3) Incarcerate all invaders, refugees, etc. of a Muslim persuasion in said camp and tell them to run it by their beloved Sharia.
    4) Give it to KSA, Pakistan and Iran to administer.
    Posted by: AlanC   2016-07-15 15:37  

    #22  Mohamed strikes again.
    Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2016-07-15 15:29  

    #21  I cannot imagine the French meekly, passively allowing this sort of thing to happen to them.
    Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2016-07-15 11:58  

    #20  Not until obama was elected did we have one of these attacks go down every month.
    Posted by: newc   2016-07-15 11:55  

    #19  Our MSM in the U.S. are still trying to figure out what motivated the guy (A hint for the MSM who are a bit slow: Islam).
    Posted by: JohnQC   2016-07-15 10:51  

    #18  Takbir - Allahu Ackbar was shouted by the killer as he murders the innocent seeking absolution for his sins by killing infidels in order to advance his version of extremist ahl al-sunnah Islam.

    And the MSM does not report this to the masses. Nothing to see here - move along, move along...this does not fit the MSM narrative that Sunni Islamic extremism is being destroyed by Obama's nuanced approach. Well, there is nothing nuanced by having the life intentionally crushed out of you and your children by a five ton truck.
    Posted by: Tennessee   2016-07-15 10:43  

    #17  Marseille, probably the most culturally diverse city in France is less than 200km from Nice. I wonder how many Muslims are listed in the casualties?

    Any potential advance warning ?
    Posted by: Besoeker   2016-07-15 10:35  

    #16  John Kerry:
    "Alert James Taylor and start up the G5. Terayzah, I'll pick something up for you in Paris"
    Posted by: Frank G   2016-07-15 09:20  

    #15  I draw the line at talking to angels.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-07-15 08:49  

    #14  Nothing'll be done until the elites start feeling the pain.
    Posted by: Pappy   2016-07-15 08:25  

    #13  Grom, there may be another teenage girl to lead them.
    Posted by: Rob Crawford   2016-07-15 08:24  

    #12  I still wonder just how long the French people will continue to accept this cancer in their country.
    Posted by: DarthVader   2016-07-15 08:06  

    #11  Can the French figure that "you have to fight fire with fire", or do they need another Italian to lead them?
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-07-15 07:51  

    #10  Hussein Obama probably thinks it's all a big misunderstanding and that the French should apologize for hurting Islamist feelings and then everything will be just roses.
    Posted by: Elder of Zion   2016-07-15 07:49  

    #9  JPAL said:
    "studied the Koran every day."

    Perhaps that's were the trouble began ?
    Posted by: Elder of Zion   2016-07-15 07:46  

    #8  ISIS has finally realized the potential of the european islamic fifth column.
    This will accelerate the rise of European right wing parties. Are we now witnessing the beginning of the a islamic holocust ? or have all Europeans been castrated by the multiculti left wing Eunuchs ?
    Posted by: Elder of Zion   2016-07-15 07:43  

    #7  Sky News doesn't bother to mention his name or religion....

    The MSM is there to mislead not inform.
    Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2016-07-15 07:40  

    #6  Perp's mom quoted as saying he was a good boy and studied the Koran every day. He just fell in with the wrong bunch of jihadis.
    Posted by: jpal   2016-07-15 07:34  

    #5  CBS radio said a few minutes ago, the driver had a hard life, recent divorce, fell asleep in his truck, got fired. Failed to mention the Allen Snackbar part.
    Posted by: Bobby   2016-07-15 07:17  

    #4  He'll be traveling to the Riviera soon no doubt. Michelle, kids, and granny in separate lifts along with an entourage of hundreds of strap hangers.
    Posted by: Besoeker   2016-07-15 04:53  

    #3  FBI director Comey will refer to the driver as just extremely careless.
    The words "Islamic Road Rage" will henceforth NOT be allowed by government officials.
    Word is the truck was acquired legally.
    But trucks no larger than 2 tons will be allowed on the road during major crowd events.
    Oh, and white French folk are to blame per Hillary.
    Posted by: Percy McCoy7690   2016-07-15 04:47  

    #2  an interior ministry spokesman, Pierre-Henry Brandet, said it was too early to be certain of the killers’ motives

    I guess they could've been Royalist fanatics.
    Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-07-15 04:35  

    #1  84 and counting.
    Posted by: JFM   2016-07-15 03:39  

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