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Polish Foreign Ministry confirms two nationals dead in nice truck attack

20 July 2016 02:29 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The Polish Foreign Ministry confirms that two Polish women died when a gunman drove a truck into a crowd of revelers in the southern French resort of Nice, the ministry’s spokesman said Tuesday, APA reports quoting Sputnik.

The truck assault on the crowd marking the Bastille Day on the Nice seafront killed 84 people, almost half of them foreign visitors, according to French authorities.

A photo taken on November 17, 2015 in Paris shows the Eiffel Tower illuminated with the colors of the French national flag in tribute to the victims of the November 13 Paris terror attacks.

"Poland's consulate general in Lyon has received an official confirmation from France that the Nice terror attack on July 14 left two female Polish nationals dead," Rafal Sobczak told the Polish news agency PAP.

The attacker was killed in a standoff with police. He was identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Nice resident of Tunisian descent who the Daesh terror group claimed was its follower.