Nice prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre said the truck drove two kilometres through a large crowd that was watching the fireworks. Local authorities from the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture also urged people to remain indoors following what appeared to be a deliberate attack. Police officers stand near the truck, its windscreen riddled with bullets, that ploughed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice late Thursday (France time). (Reuters photo)NICE, FRANCE - At least 80 people were killed when a truck ploughed into a crowd watching a Bastille Day fireworks display in the southern French resort of Nice, prosecutors said early Friday. Christian Estrosi told BFM TV that "the driver fired on the crowd, according to the police who killed him."

Source: Bangkok Post July 14, 2016 23:17 UTC