2016 Nice attack

2016 Nice truck attack
The Promenade des Anglais, the Site of the Attack.
Location	Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France
Coordinates	43.6936°N 7.2557°E / 43.6936; 7.2557
Date	14 July 2016 c. 22:30 – 22:35 CEST
Attack type	Vehicle-ramming attack, mass murder
Weapon(s)	*Renault Midlum cargo truck, 7.65mm pistol
Deaths	87 (including the Perpetrator who was killed by Police)
Injured	434

The 2016 Nice attack happened on 14 July 2016 in Nice, France. A man drove a truck into people celebrating Bastille Day, the national day of France. He killed 86 and injured 434 people. Gunfire was reported; at first, people thought it was fireworks.

At around 22:45 local time, a truck was driven into a large crowd of people at Promenade des Anglais. Later, guns were fired. The driver, Tunisian truck driver Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, was killed by police.

2016 Nice Attack Media

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  Bastille Day celebrations on beach below Promenade des Anglais, 2014

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  Annotated map showing course of attack along the Promenade des Anglais

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  The white truck, a Renault Midlum, stopped in the distance (large white truck in distant middle lane) on the Promenade des Anglais on the morning after the attack

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  A pair of shoes lie on the ground shortly after the attack.

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  Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, on his residency permit

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  Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais was used for triage of the victims.

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  French flag at half-mast in Tours on the day after the attack, which was followed by three days of national mourning

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  Memorial at the site of the attack

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  Tributes on the Promenade des Anglais

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  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lay flowers near French embassy in Moscow, 15 July 2016.

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