"One woman told France Info that she and others had fled in terror: "The lorry came zig-zagging along the street. "It’s a scene of horror," a local member of parliament, Eric Ciotti, told France Info. He said 75 people were dead after the truck sped along the pavement fronting the Mediterranean, before being stopped by police after "mowing down several hundred people. Hours earlier, Hollande had said that a state of emergency put in place after the Paris attacks in November would not be extended when it expires on July 26. ""People went down like ninepins," Jacques, a restaurant owner on the seafront Promenade des Anglais, told France Info.Local newspaper Nice-Matin posted photographs of the truck ,its windshield starred by a score of bullets and its radiator grille destroyed.

Source: The Nation Bangkok July 14, 2016 23:48 UTC