Police remove truck used in Nice attack

It took less than 30 minutes, and possibly just 15, for a man to carry out an attack that killed at least 84 people, ten of them children, and injured 202 more in the French city of Nice.

Police on Friday (July 15) removed the truck used in the Bastille Day attack.

A police motorcade escorted a tow truck pulling the large white truck, whose windshield was riddled with bullet holes.

The suspect, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, drove a 19-tonne truck at high speed into crowds as a fireworks show to mark France's national holiday came to an end on Thursday (July 14).

The driver swerved to hit people on the roadway and on the wide pavements that overlook the strand and sea. According to witness accounts, the truck accelerated as it hurtled into the crowded area near a tourist office.

The suspect was shot dead after a run of some 2 km (1.5 miles) after he opened fire with from his vehicle with three shots from a 765 mm pistol, public prosecutor Francois Molins said.

While he had several run-ins with the law previously, Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Nice resident born in Tunisia, was not on a watch list of French intelligence services as a suspected militant.

He was known to police for petty crime and violence but not suspected Islamist militancy.