Nice attack: Truck driver identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel
"Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel has been confirmed as the driver of the lorry involved in the Nice attack by the french prosecutor Francois Molins," reported BBC.
A terror attack claimed at least 84 lives while many were injured when during the Bastille day celebrations in the French city of Nice a man drove a truck into a crowd mowing them down in what is yet another strike in the European nation reeling under repeated assaults by the extremists.
The French 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.
France has declared three days of mourning.
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