Nice attack: At least 75 feared dead after lorry crashes
in crowd at Bastille Day celebration in France
Nice, France, July 14, 2016.in crowd at Bastille Day celebration in France
Terror has again hit the streets of France as a lorry was driven, seemingly deliberately, into a large crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day on the seafront in Nice, France.
At least 75 people have been killed and around 50 seriously injured, according to the Nice prosecutor's office, and the driver of the truck is understood to have been shot dead by police at the scene.
Many hundreds were told to run from the scene by police, and the president of the local region, Christian Estrosi, urged everyone in the city to remain indoors.
Eyewitnesses said the driver hit the crowd at high speed, swerving to hit as many as possible before climbing out of the car and shooting more dead.
The attack happened on the Promenade des Anglais at around 10:30pm local time at the end of a firework display in what local officials are treating as serious terror attack.
Amid rumours of a hostage situation at a hotel in the city and of an accomplice inside the truck itself, police have said they are working to establish if the driver was "working alone".
Images emerged of the badly damaged truck, its windscreen riddled with bullets. Witnesses say there was an exchange of gunfire between the driver and police.
Anti-terror investigators have taken over the scene which has been cordoned off to the public, and an anti-terror probe has now officially been opened.
A spokesman for France's interior ministry said there is going to be "a very high death toll".
One witness, Colin Srivastava, said: "The police told us run, now!"
Another, Roy Calley, told the BBC shots between the driver and police were fired as soon as they began to approach.
It comes just hours after French president Francois Hollande announced the state of emergency which had been in place since the Paris attacks in November would be lifted on 26 July.
He is now returning to Paris from holiday in Avignon following the incident.
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