NICE, France — An eyewitness has told The Associated Press that he saw a truck driver slam a vehicle into a crowd of revelers in the French resort city of Nice and then emerge shooting, killing many.
Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native who spoke to the AP near Nice’s Promenade du Paillon, said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting.
“There was carnage on the road,” Bouhlel said. “Bodies everywhere.”
Horrible pictures coming in from #Nice #France reports suggest firefight btwn driver and sec forces after the attack pic.twitter.com/jaYb93wv2D
— Tonton du Bled (@NextDoorArab) July 14, 2016