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MASSACRE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE: 10 Things You Need To Know

John Bickley
MASSACRE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE: 10 Things You Need To Know

Article first published 7/14/2016, updated and reformatted as new details have emerged.

More than 80 people are dead and 200 wounded in what appears to be a terror attack in the city of Nice on the French Riviera. Just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday night, while crowds gathered on the Promenade des Anglais to watch fireworks in celebration of Bastille Day — a commemoration of French unity and remembrance of the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution — a French Tunisian man identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, deliberately drove a large truck (pictured above) through the crowd, running over dozens of people, before he was killed in a shootout with police officers.

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