Related: Nice attack: arms found in truck that hit Bastille Day crowd killing 60 people, French officials say – live updatesFrench counter-terrorism police are investigating after the driver careered into the dense crowd and continued to drive into them for a distance of 2km. 84 people were killed and about 100 more injured when an armed man drove a truck at full speed into a crowd who had gathered to watch the Bastille Day fireworks display over the seafront in Nice on Thursday night. “Bodies everywhere.”Related: Bastille Day truck attack: what we know so farIt was not clear whether the driver had opened fire, or whether the gunfire heard by witnesses was part of police attempts to neutralise the driver. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/ReutersWitnesses described scenes of terror and chaos on Nice’s beachfront Promenade des Anglais as the truck driver ran down dozens in the crowd that included families, children and babies. The French interior ministry confirmed that the driver had been shot dead by police, who are investigating whether he acted alone or had accomplices.

Source: The Guardian July 15, 2016 00:09 UTC