File images showing the aftermath of the Nice attack, as one year anniversary nears

Record ID: 898890

  • Title: File images showing the aftermath of the Nice attack, as one year anniversary nears
  • Date: 11th July 2017
  • Summary: NICE, FRANCE (FILE - JULY 14, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HELICOPTER LANDING VARIOUS OF INJURED PEOPLE BEING WHEELED AWAY ON STRETCHERS SOLDIERS STANDING GUARD IN FRONT OF AMBULANCES
  • Embargoed: 25th July 2017 10:44
  • Keywords: Nice attacks anniversary truck Bastille day Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel promenade des anglais
  • Location: NICE & PARIS, FRANCE
  • City: NICE & PARIS, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA0036P9TIKN
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: *EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES*
    It will be a year on Friday (July 14) since the 31 year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel ploughed a truck into a crowd killing 86 people and injuring several others in the French city of Nice.
    French President Emmanuel Macron will join the city of Nice in a commemoration ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the attack and to remember the victims. A military parade and a concert will also be held.
    The attacker who has been known to the police for common crimes but not to the intelligence services, drove a heavy truck at high speed for hundreds metres into Bastille Day revelers on the famed Promenade des Anglais, before he was shot dead by the police.
    Bodies lay on the pavement, covered in sheets, after the carnage with some people sitting by their deceased loved ones.
    In the days after, Nice residents and other sympathisers left tributes along the seaside promenade, where a makeshift memorial was created.
    The attack claimed by Islamic State left 84 people dead and many wounded, while two others died later due to injuries.
    France was once again plunged into new grief and fear just eight months after gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris. Assaults in January 2015 on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket were also claimed by Islamic State.
    Four days after the attack, Nice held an official memorial for the victims, drawing thousands of sympathisers who gathered in the Promenade des Anglais.
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