Full Coverage: Nice truck rampage

A UC Berkeley student missing in Nice since Thursday’s terror attack has been confirmed dead, according to university officials.

Hundreds of students are expected to gather at a vigil for a UC Berkeley student who was one of 84 killed in Thursday’s terror attack in Nice.

In the wake of the terrorist attack in Nice, France, law enforcement officials here say preventing violence by attackers using common vehicles could prove a challenge.

Terrorism in France has shifted from bloodbaths at a newspaper office and a concert hall in Paris to a summer tourist hot spot on the Mediterranean.

The assailant who plowed a truck into crowds celebrating the July 14 Bastille Day holiday in France, killing 84 and injuring hundreds, apparently planned his attack for months and had accomplices who face terrorism charges, authorities said Thursday.

Karim Madani has spent his life in a rough section of Nice, where many immigrants from North Africa grow up with diminished dreams and limited opportunities a world away from the glamorous Mediterranean shoreline.

In what has become a grim ritual, France paused for a moment of silence Monday to mourn the victims of a major terrorist attack, this time the 84 people killed when a tractor-trailer was deliberately driven through a holiday celebration in Nice last week.

It is the seemingly endless piles of teddy bears, Minnie Mouse dolls, Bart Simpson puppets and stuffed animals — bunnies, donkeys, zebras, giraffes — that take your breath away, silent and heartbreaking reminders of why the terrorist attack in Nice was so different.

In this nondescript Tunisian suburb, friends and family members of the man who drove a truck into a crowd of French revelers are at a loss to explain how one of their own could have been responsible for a deadly attack claimed by Islamic State.

Oscar Morales was working on a post for OKBaby, a vlog he and Kyra Sivertson began last year after they became parents, when his mother got the call from Nice.

French police arrested two more suspects Sunday in connection with a truck attack that killed 84 people in this southern French resort, amid new reports that the 31-year-old assailant sent a mysterious text message asking for “more weapons” just before the rampage.

Last week’s terrorist attack in Nice, after similar tragedies in Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, Orlando and Istanbul, made two things painfully clear.

News that the attacker who killed at least 84 people in France was a Tunisian citizen and a Muslim legally working in the country quickly became ammunition for American politicians suggesting that the United States also faces a serious threat from within.

Public anger grew Saturday over the truck rampage that killed at least 84 people in this seaside resort, with accusations of lax security eroding support for the country’s already unpopular president and galvanizing passions over the threat posed by violent jihadists.

The fashionably dressed Italian woman, in skinny jeans and sunglasses, dissolved into tears.

The fireworks had just ended when Robert Green, drink in hand on the beach, heard the mumbling, the odd sound of people murmuring about something they couldn’t quite fathom.

As prayerful chants echoed through this Riviera resort city’s cathedral, France plunged Friday into an achingly familiar ritual of grief and recrimination after a truck-borne attacker plowed a path of carnage through a holiday crowd, killing at least 84 people and injuring more than 200.

As soon as Nicolas Leslie’s parents found out about the attack in Nice on Thursday, they tried to call him.

The 31-year-old man at the wheel of a truck that plowed through Bastille Day revelers in this southern resort city was known to the police as a violent petty criminal who immigrated from Tunisia about 10 years ago.

It was supposed to be a dream European vacation for the Texas family — Spain, with stops in Pamplona and Barcelona for flamenco dancing, then east to France, where they would finish the trip in Nice.

The Canadian couple I’d just met screamed a warning: “Sarah, run!”

As she walked along the promenade above the ocean, past the horror-scape of broken bodies, Maryam Violet could hear the cries and murmurs of the hurt and grieving — in Arabic.

Here are what may be the two most important facts we know now about the Tunisian-born freelance truck driver who ran down scores of people on a crowded beachfront street in Nice on Thursday: He was a longtime resident of France, and he had never been suspected of being a terrorist.

The older of my two daughters has lived in France for well over two decades.

A terrorist attack involving a large truck — similar to the assault that killed at least 77 in Nice, France, Thursday — has been a scenario law enforcement officials in California and beyond have long analyzed.

A truck loaded with weapons barreled through a crowd of Bastille Day revelers gathered Thursday to watch a fireworks display in the southern French resort city of Nice, fatally crushing people for more than a mile in what officials described as the latest in a string of deadly terrorist attacks to hit Europe.