Georgia Tech student witnesses France truck attack
A French city is on lockdown after a vehicle drove into a crowd during Bastille Day celebrations.
A Georgia Tech student in the French city of Nice told Channel 2 Action News via Skype he heard the commotion.
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Brendan Phillips heard the sound he thought was fireworks before police cars rushed by going about 60 mph, he said.
A French official said to Phillips, “Go, quickly,” he said.
The truck hit dozens of pedestrians on the Promenade des Anglais near the center of town in Nice.
A witness told The Associated Press that there were “bodies everywhere.”
Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native who spoke to the AP near Nice’s Promenade du Paillon, said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting.
The Paris prosecutor’s office was quoted by French TV as saying 60 people are dead.
