Forensic experts continued investigations into the truck attack in the French city of Nice on Friday (July 15) which left at least 84 people dead and scores more injured.
An attacker at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into crowds celebrating Bastille Day along the seafront Promenade des Anglais, in what French President Francois Hollande called a terrorist act.
The driver, identified by police sources as a 31-year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman, also appeared to open fire before officers shot him dead. The man, named as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was not on the watch list of French intelligence services but was known to the police in connection with common crimes such as theft and violence, police sources said.
Police carried out a controlled explosion and investigated a lorry close to the apartment where the suspect is believed to have lived.
