France Attack: A White Truck, Bodies Fly, And A World Of Tears In Nice

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The Bastille day fireworks had just ended when a large white truck drove fast and deliberately at the crowd on the Nice waterfront on Thursday. A few hours later, the 40 or so people gathered in a room for victims’ families at the Pasteur hospital in the French Riviera town, Nice had the horror of it all etched on their faces.

People cried, some holding their heads in their hands. One woman with bruises on her face sat in a wheelchair, weeping and looking desperate.

NiceAt least 80 people died in the carnage and many more were injured in what President Francois Hollande said was clearly a terrorist attack, with several children among the dead. Laurence Marie, who works at Lenval paediatric hospital, said “many” more children were undergoing serious operations there.

The attack came eight months after the Islamist militant shootings and suicide bombings in Paris that killed 130 people.

Hollande had announced just hours earlier, while marking France’s national day celebrating the birth of the world’s first republic, that he would lift the state of emergency that was put in place after the November killings.

“We were all very happy, ready to celebrate all night long, we had a big plan!” said a 20-year-old woman in the hospital room who gave her name as Fanny.

Nice“As we were just starting to walk after the fireworks, I saw a truck driving into the pedestrian area, it was going very fast and zigzagging. At first I thought the truck didn’t realise the road had been made pedestrian for the celebration. But when I saw people on the ground I started realising it could be a terror attack,” she told reporters.

“Luckily my brother, my mum and myself are all fine now but some of my friends were not as lucky, they are having operations as we speak. It’s very hard, it’s all very traumatic.”

Nurses had told some of those waiting that the medical team didn’t have time to take records of the identities of the wounded because the priority was treatment.

NicePatients were being classified by numbers.

“I saw bodies flying like skittles as it drove along,” said local journalist Damien Allemand on the Nice-Matin newspaper’s web site. “I just froze … The beach attendants were the first on the scene. They brought water for the wounded and towels that they placed over those for whom there was no hope.”

Back in the hospital, Marco de Feo, 29 from Milan, said he and his four friends had only learned of the celebration from their hosts, a Romanian couple living in Nice, and decided to go along at the last minute.

“I saw a truck turning into the road and driving fast in our direction,” he said.

“Luckily I saw it in time to avoid it, but our friend got hit and fell on the ground. We fled to the beach and then found shelter in a hotel. One of our friends went back on the scene to carry our injured friend who couldn’t move nor speak but was still breathing. She was then taken to hospital in an ambulance.”

NiceThe driver of the truck in Nice attack was shot dead by police, but some witnesses said they thought he was firing a gun as he drove.

I saw this enormous white truck go past at top speed,” said Suzy Wargniez, a local woman aged 65 who saw the scene unfold from a cafe on the promenade.

“It was shooting, shooting.”

Dawn revealed pools of dried blood, smashed children’s strollers, an uneaten baguette and other debris strewn about the promenade.

Small areas were screened off at regular intervals. What appeared to be bodies covered in blankets were visible through the gaps.

The trail of broken waste bins, signage, and police barriers suggested the driver had mounted the kerb from the road to the promenade just outside the Lenval hospital, where some of the child victims were taken.

Source: The Indian Express

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