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[Vilanat]

Why do they think it's a terror attack? did the driver had a rifle or something?

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, after ploughing through the crowd, driver got out and started shooting people

[martinuzz]

Mainly because there have been reports of gunfire between police and the driver. This could have also been the fireworks that were being fired everywhere for the festivities. Authorities have at least reported the truck driver is dead now.

[martinuzz]

A Dutch eyewitness reports
"A white unmarked truck was driving at full speed over the pedestrian walkway. We heard dull thuds of people being hit. Over a distance of one and a half kilometer we saw at least 30 dead bodies lying along the road."

Another witness reports:
"When the fireworks had ended we suddenly heard gunfire and people started running and shouting. We saw people lying on the floor. And glass everywhere. People dropped their drinks and ran. It is complete panic here. Everyone is trembling and crying."

[Sergarr]

Why do they think it's a terror attack? did the driver had a rifle or something?

It's a deliberate mass murder of civilians, during a festival. How else would you classify this?

[Culise]

Why do they think it's a terror attack? did the driver had a rifle or something?

It's a deliberate mass murder of civilians, during a festival. How else would you classify this?

Well, a truck plowing into a crowd could easily be a tragic accident; there's a world of difference between a brake failure and a terrorist incident.  The additional information of reported gunfire exchanges between the driver and police does tend to incline things towards the latter, however.

[martinuzz]

Break failures tend not to leave bullet holes in the windshield.

[Culise]

I didn't say it wasn't a terrorist incident.  I simply stated that, knowing only that a truck hit the crowd and killed a bunch of people, it was a perfectly reasonable question to ask at that point in time.  Not all mass-death incidents are terrorism; otherwise, we'd be talking about the terrorists behind the Tenerife airport disaster, nor are all people here blessed with precog, to have seen that picture you just posted almost two hours before you posted it.  There was no need to jump on Vilanat's throat over it.

[Loud Whispers]

There was no need to jump on Vilanat's throat over it.

No throats were jumped on

[martinuzz]

Crap. My aunt and uncle are on holidays in southern France. They could have been in Nice today. Their phone is off. I'll just think positive and assume that is because they're already asleep at half past midnight.

[Culise]

There was no need to jump on Vilanat's throat over it.

No throats were jumped on

EDIT: Actually, I shall simply straight-out apologize, no excuses or hedging, and recuse myself from all future discussion.  It is almost certain that I misread.

[Loud Whispers]

Ey isn't removing yourself from all future discussion a bit of an overreaction
To err is human, and you are not kitchenbot

[Dorsidwarf]

+Malachite Worktop+

[martinuzz]

French authorities anounce that weapons and grenades have been found in the truck. I guess they shot him dead before he could use those.
The investigation has been officially passed from the police to the anti-terror brigade now.

At least 60 people are dead, about 100 wounded.
Apparently local visitors and tourists are being marched off the site by the military, with their hands over their heads.
(that or the people in the picture are just drunk student trolls unaware of the seriousness of the situation, but the subscript under the pic in my newspaper says "military are clearing the boulevard")

[TheBiggerFish]

That's just...Bad.