Truck grid in the crowd: at Least 70 Dead in attack in nice

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Truck grid in the crowd: at Least 70 Dead in attack in nice

In the French nice, is the car on the national holiday of a load by a crowd of people raced. There are more than 70 Dead. President Francois Hollande returned to Paris to a meeting of the crisis staff.

France has been hit on its national day once again a heavy stroke: In the South of France, nice attacker killed the first according to official data, at least 70 people when he raced a truck through a crowd of people. The alleged bombers have left over a distance of about two kilometers, a trail of destruction behind him, informed the authorities in nice. A politician told the TV station BFMTV, in the truck, firearms, and explosives had been found.

The sub-prefect of the Region, Sébastien Humbert, said BFMTV, the driver of the truck had been shot. It was a “criminal attack on a large scale”. CNN quoted an eyewitness, the truck had accelerated as he was driving through the lot. It was only one Person in the cab.

Injured on the site of the attack

The alleged attack took place shortly after the fireworks of the national holiday, numerous people on the street flowed. An AFP Reporter was on the Promenade des Anglais to the eye-witnesses. A white truck sped off with great speed in the crowd, he said. “We saw how people were taken and how the objects flew around,” he said. “The people have cried”, people taken in panic flight. “It was absolute Chaos.”

Emergency crews are at the scene. The interior Ministry informed that a hostage-taking there at the Moment.

The newspaper “Nice Matin” reported setseite on your Internet, on the scene of the incident, Mr. sche, panic, and confusion. Social media course not verified recordings that show how people run away initially.

Hollande returns to Paris

President Francois Hollande broke off a visit to the city of Avignon and travelled directly to the crisis centre at the Élysée Palace. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve went to the scene of the crime. The U.S. government announced, President Obama to keep up to date.

Rescue workers and police arrive at the scene of the crime

Mayor Christian Estrosi is not called on the inhabitants to leave their homes. Also the Prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes region, the citizens called on, for safety at home, reasons to stay.

The celebrations of the national holiday in France took place under increased security measures. Alone in the capital, Paris 11,500 police officers were deployed to prevent attacks and riots.

President Hollande had announced on Thursday that since the attacks of January 2015 in force a state of emergency in the country on the 26. To extend July. You could not get this measure last forever, he said in a television interview. The state of emergency had previously been extended several times.

stu/gri (dpa, afp, rtr)