Third mass killing in Western Europe in eight months causes more fear across an anxious continent. The truck was still there where it had come to rest, its windscreen riddled with bullets. The driver, identified by police sources as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian resident in France, also appeared to open fire before officers shot him dead. The truck zigzagged along the seafront Promenade des Anglais in the city of Nice as a fireworks display marking the French national day ended on Thursday night. The third mass killing in Western Europe in eight months caused more fear across an already anxious continent struggling with security challenges from mass immigration, open borders and pockets of Islamist radicalism.

Source: The Hindu July 15, 2016 18:44 UTC