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ISIS claims responsibility of Nice attack that killed 84

India Blooms News Service | | Jul 16, 2016, at 11:18 pm

#France attack #Nice #Truck attack #ISIS #Nice attack #Terrorism #Bastille Day

Nice, July 16 (IBNS): The Islamic State has claimed responsibility of the terror attack that killed 84 people while many were injured during the Bastille day celebrations in the French city of Nice, reports said.

The massacre happened on Thursday when a man drove a truck into a crowd mowing several people down in what was seen as yet another strike in the European nation reeling under repeated assaults by the extremists.

The French people were celebrating Bastille Day, when the incident took place in the fifth most populous city of France on is south east coast on the Mediterranean Sea.

Witnesses said that a white lorry drove over a crowd, who had gathered to see the fireworks as part of the celebrations.

The driver had been identified as a 31-year-old man of French-Tunisian descent while France has declared three days of mourning.

Police shot the attacker dead, but the man retaliated with a pistol before he went down.

Victims of the attack, deemed to be the second worst since the Paris attack last year, were mostly residents of Nice and tourists, people who were out on the streets to witness the grand celebrations.

Post the attack, French president Francoise Hollande had extended the state of emergency and also chaired an inter-ministerial crisis meeting along with the French Prime Minister.

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