Bastille day tragedy

Not less than 84 people have been feared dead, while celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French city of Nice as a result of a fallen lorry. The lorry was said to contain guns and were fleeing from police when he was shot. on for 2km (1.2 miles) on the Promenade des Anglais at about 23:00 local time, before been shot dead by police on making further attempt to hit more people. The attack began after the display of firework on the seafront for Bastille Day, which is the country's national holiday. Wassim Bouhlel told Frenchmedia. "My wife... a metre away... she was dead. The lorry ripped through everything... poles, trees. We have never seen anything like it. Some people were hanging on the door and tried to stop it." "It had been a normal evening and we were just walking around," Joel Fenster told the BBC. "Suddenly people started running, there were screams and police sirens and policemen shouting at us to evacuate. "It was terrifying, especially because we didn't know what was going on. At the time we only had heard some kind of gunshots and we assumed that there were people running around with guns. Almost 50 people have been injured, 18 of them sustaining a serious injury.