DEVELOPING STORY: Dozens Killed in France, Over 100 Wounded

By Steve Almasy. A long white truck ran into a crowd of people in Nice, France, on Bastille Day, killing “probably” 30 people and injuring 100 more, a local prefecture official told CNN.

One witness, an American who was about 15 feet from the truck, said the driver pointed his tractor trailer into the crowd, mowing bodies over. The witness said the driver accelerated as he hit those bodies.

There was gunfire, he said. A CNN affiliate in France, BFM-TV, reported police exchanged gunfire with people in the truck. (Read more from “Dozens Killed in France” HERE)

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Official: Dozens dead after truck hits crowd in Nice, France

By FoxNews.com. DEVELOPING: A large truck drove into a crowd of people who had gathered for a Bastille Day fireworks show Thursday in the southern French city of Nice, killing at least 30 people and injuring 100 more in an apparent terror attack, officials said.

A police official told France’s BFM TV that the driver of the truck was also dead. A witness, Wassim Bouhlel, told the Associated Press that he saw the truck drive into the crowd, then witnessed the driver emerge with a gun and start shooting.

“There was carnage on the road,” Bouhlel said. “Bodies everywhere” . . .

The Nice-Matin newspaper quoted one of its reporters as saying the truck driver “mounted onto the Prom and he drove on everyone.” The reporter added, “people are running, it’s panic.” (Read more from this story, “Dozens Killed in France,” HERE)