Nice, France terror attack: France’s Nice was today struck by a “terror” attack with at least 84 people being killed after a truck barrelled two kilometres through the festive crowd during the Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver of the truck, which was loaded with arms and grenades, has been killed by the police.
France President Francois Hollande has said that the lethal attack was “clearly a terrorist assault”. “There’s no denying the terrorist nature of this attack of yet again the most extreme form of violence,” Hollande has said. This is the third major terror attack against France in less than 18 months.
Here is a timeline on Terror attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day 2016:
5.52 pm: Motorcyclist crushed trying to stop killer truck in Nice: Witness
5.50 pm: Passengers ordered out of Nice Airport, military seen inside closed terminal building: AP
5.40 pm: Evacuation at Nice airport in progress, reason unclear, reports AP
5.35 pm: Hollywood mourns Nice terror attack
5.28 pm: “It was very well planned,” a Nice Attack eyewitness says
5.00 pm: France declares three days of national mourning
4.37 pm: The Tour de France resumed under heightened security and in a low-key mood on Friday after race officials observed a minute’s silence in tribute to the scores of victims of the Bastille Day attack in Nice. Read more
4.30 pm: Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch encouraged its recruits in the West to use trucks as a weapon back in 2010: Report
4.25 pm: Vice President Hamid Ansari calls for adoption of global convention on terrorism
4.20 pm: Vigil along Bangladesh border to be tightened
4.15 pm: Senior IS leader Abu Mohammed al Adnani had exhorted supporters to ‘run over filthy French’
4.00 pm: British PM may says will speak to Hollande to make clear the UK stands shoulder to shoulder with France
3.40 pm: The children’s hospital in Nice says it has treated some 50 children and adolescents injured in the truck attack, including two who died during or after surgery.
3.35 pm: It’s “sad when you’ve been marked safe twice on Facebook in the last week” says woman who was in both Dallas & Nice
3.30 pm: “It seemed like an accident at first, but became apparent very quickly that it was deliberate”: Nice Attack witness
2.50 pm: French PM Manuel Valls and French President Francois Hollande will go to Nice later today.
2.21 pm: The French Tricolour was hoisted on July 15 in solidarity with the French people
2.00 pm: Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said he was shocked by the news of the attack and that his thoughts were with the victims and their family. The attack in Nice is “incomprehensible and simply awful,” and that “this barbaric murder must be finally brought to an end.”
1.50 pm: France truck attacker formally identified, says Police official
1.25 pm: Hollande denounces third ‘terrorist’ act in 18 months
1.20 pm: France attack: Bodies flew like bowling pins, says Nice witness
12.48 pm: Zakir Naik slams media for targetting him
12.47 pm: Anti-terror prosecutors are still investigating the brutal terror attack: Reports
12.43 pm: France attack terrorist, who was a Franco-Tunisian, was known to police for common crimes
12.30 pm: Would ask Congress for declaration of war on ISIS: Donald Trump
Read: France terror attack on Bastille Day in Nice: Here is what we know about the attacker
12.07 pm; Italy will boost controls at three road crossings into France and at the Ventimiglia train link between the two countries following the truck attack in nearby Nice, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said
12.00 pm: Facebook activates Safety Check after truck attack kills dozens in Nice, France
11.48 am: Will this be the most defining image of the terror attack in France’s Nice?
The fear of checking on the news to find more innocent lives have been taken. #NiceFrance
— Masato Jones (@masatostudio) July 15, 2016
11. 43 am: One of the terrorists identified as French national with Tunisian origin
11.42 am: Truck drove for 2 kms through the crowd: Reports
Death toll in Nice, France has just risen to 83. #PrayForNice
— jułian (@frihoele) July 15, 2016
11.35 am: Saw bodies flying like bowling pins, heard sounds, howls I’ll never forget: Nice, France attack witness
11.30 am: Emergency extended in France
11.27 am: Angela Merkel says Germany stands by France in fight against terrorism, convinced we will win this fight despite all difficulties
11.23 am: Rihanna’s concert in Nice, France has been canceled following the horrific Bastille Day attack
11.21 am: Rahul Gandhi condemns the terror attack on Nice, France
11.20 am: US politician, Newt Gingrich: We should test every Muslim in the US, deport any with ‘Sharia’ beliefs
11.15 am: Emergency Crisis number set up in Nice, France by the French Government: +33 8 20 26 06 06
11.10 am: “France was struck on its national day … the symbol of freedom,” said Francois Hollande.
Today’s #NiceAttack makes it 8 terror attacks in 19 months in France, that has left nearly 230 people dead. Horrific, mindless killing.
— Rasheed Kappan (@kappansky) July 15, 2016
11.05 am: Also Read: France Terror attack: A white truck, bodies fly, and a world of tears in Nice
11.00 am: “We all knew we had to run for our lives.” Attack witnesses describe horror, chaos in Nice
10.55 am: Terror attack in France’s Nice on Bastille Day: World leaders show solidarity
10.50 am: Donald Trump postpones his VP announcement after France attack
10.47 am: Inactive grenade was found inside the truck,as well as several fake rifle
10.45 am: NEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup said that no Indian affected in France terror attack
10.40 am: UNSC strongly condemns barbaric & cowardly terrorist attack during Bastille Day celebrations.
10.30 am: Officials have say at least 80 people have died, including children, with around 18 more critically injured
10.15 am: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has postponed announcing name of his vice presidential running mate that was scheduled to be made today following deadly attack in Nice
10.10 am: Hospitals plea for blood donors for victims in Nice terror attack
10.00 am: Witness to attack in Nice: “There were families laying down, crying next to these bodies
9.50 am: UN condemns ‘barbaric and cowardly’ France attack
Also Read: Truck attack in Nice, France: Seven things we know so far
(All timings in Indian Standard Time)
9.30 am: Hillary Clinton reacts to Bastille Day attack: “this is a war” against radical jihadists”
8.25 am: India stands shoulder to shoulder with the people and Government of France as it responds to #NiceAttack: President Pranab Mukherjee
8.20 am: I hope injured recover soon. India shares pain & stands firmly with our French sisters & brothers in this hour of immense sadness: PM Modi
Appalled by the horrific attack in Nice. I strongly condemn such mindless acts of violence. My thoughts are with the families of deceased.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) July 15, 2016
8.15 am: Appalled by horrific #NiceAttack. I strongly condemn such mindless acts of violence. My thoughts are with the families of deceased: PM Modi
8.00 am: Death toll of #NiceAttack (France) rises to 80.
7.45 am: ‘Terrorist nature’ of #NiceAttack ‘undeniable’: President Francois Hollande
7.30 am: Our Embassy in Paris has opened helpline +33-1-40507070: MEA
7.25 am: French authorities hold emergency meeting as counter-terrorism take over investigation: France 24
7.20 am: French president Hollande says 77 people killed in Nice, including children, 20 gravely wounded.
7.15 am: French president Hollande extends state of emergency by 3 months.
7.00 am: The ranking politician of the Alpes-Maritime department that includes Nice said the truck plowed into the crowd over a distance of 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), killing 75 people and wounding 50. Many of those on the ground were in shorts and other summer clothing.
6.55 am: US President Barack Obama condemns ‘horrific’ France attack
Statement by @POTUS on the Attack in Nice, France pic.twitter.com/Pp8b6UHVZO
— Ned Price (@Price44) July 14, 2016
6.50 am: Donald Trump postpones his Running mate event scheduled for tomorrow in the wake of Nice attack
My prayers and condolences to the victims and families of the terrible tragedy in Nice, France. We are with you in every way!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2016
6.45 am: Christian Estrosi, President of region, says truck which rammed into people in Nice was filled with arms and grenades: AP
#Nizza pic.twitter.com/G0TnEuelkQ
— political beauty (@politicalbeauty) July 14, 2016
6.30 am: The ranking politician of the Alpes-Maritime department that includes Nice said the truck plowed into the crowd over a distance of 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), killing 75 people and wounding 50.
5.54 am: At least 75 people are reported killed after a truck loaded with weapons and hand grenades drove onto a sidewalk for more than a mile, plowing through Bastille Day revelers who’d gathered to watch fireworks in the French resort city of Nice late Thursday.
With agency inputs
