Scores Die in Nice, France, as Truck Plows Into Bastille Day Crowd
International New York Times | 14 July 2016
PARIS
— A Bastille Day fireworks celebration was shattered by death and
mayhem Thursday night in the southern French city of Nice when a large
truck barreled for more than a mile through an enormous crowd of
spectators, crushing and maiming dozens in what France’s president called a terrorist assault. It came eight months after the Paris attacks that traumatized the nation and all of Europe.
Officials
and witnesses in Nice said at least 84 people, including children, were
killed by the driver of the rampaging truck, who mowed them down on the
sidewalk. He was shot to death by the police as officers scrambled to
respond on what is France’s most important annual holiday.
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