The crowd had gathered at the Place Massena, the city's main square, and fireworks marking Bastille Day, a public holiday in France, had just started when the attack happened at about 10pm local time.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has confirmed 80 people are dead and 18 are in intensive care. He has also confirmed the truck driver is dead and investigation is on to establish if he had any accomplices.
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 16 July 2016.
French president Francois Hollande has said that "Human rights are denied by fanatics and France is quite clearly their target ... France has been struck on the day of her national holiday, the symbol of liberty."
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