A lorry on Tuesday crashed into a group amid Bastille Day festivities in the southern French city of Nice, killing around 73 individuals and harming 100 others in a fear assault, authorities were cited as saying by the nearby media.
The occurrence occurred on the celebrated Promenade des Anglais amid a firecracker show.
One picture on Twitter appeared around twelve individuals lying in the city.
The neighborhood prefecture encouraged individuals in the territory to remain inside, calling the episode "an assault".
Decent Mayor Christian Estrosi said that "a lorry driver seems to have executed many individuals".
Sebastien Humbert, the regent of the Alpes-Maritimes locale, told France's BFM TV that the lorry driver had been shot dead.
French media later cited Nice prosecutors as saying that in regards to 73 individuals were dead.
Prosecutor Jean-Michel Pretre said the lorry drove two kilometers (1.2 miles) through a vast group, the AFP news organization reported.
French President Francois Hollande was returning back to Paris for emergency talks in the capital, his office said. Hollande was in the southern city of Avignon on a private visit.
A few reports talked about shots being traded amongst police and the tenants of the lorry yet these were not affirmed.
Online networking video indicated individuals going through the lanes in frenzy taking after the episode.
A columnist with the Nice Matin daily paper reported from the scene that there was "a ton of blood and without uncertainty numerous harmed".
An AFP journalist said the occurrence occurred as the firecracker presentation was consummation, including: "We saw individuals hit and bits of flotsam and jetsam flying around."
Another picture on Twitter demonstrated a white lorry halted amidst the promenade with harm to its front, and four cops watching it while taking spread behind a palm tree.
One observer told BFM TV: "Everybody was calling run, run, keep running there's an assault run, run, run. We heard a few shots. We thought they were firecrackers since it's the fourteenth of July.
"There was extraordinary frenzy. We were running too on the grounds that we would not like to stick around and we went into an inn to get to security."
Another witness, Roy Calley told the BBC that there were "a large number of individuals on the promenade" when the episode happened.
US President Barack Obama had been informed about the circumstance in Nice "and his national security group will redesign him, as suitable", National Security Council representative Ned Price said the previous evening.
Examinations were instantly dispatched by the French powers to figure out who the culprit was and what his thought processes were.
He was said to have driven around two kilometers into the group and firearms and explosives were found in the lorry he was driving.
Source: Thisday
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