DHAKA: French President Francois Hollande is to lead crisis talks with his inner security cabinet following Thursday's attack in Nice that killed 84 people.

Hollande, who said that the attack was a terrorist act, has already extended a state of emergency by three months.

Earlier on Thursday, a lorry driver ploughed through a crowd marking Bastille Day on Nice's Promenade des Anglais.

The driver was later shot dead by police. He was identified as Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31.

Prosecutors said that he had driven the lorry 2km along the famous promenade, zigzagging and targeting people.

Ten of the dead were children. Some 202 people were injured; 52 are critical, of whom 25 are on life support.

BDST: 1215 HRS, July 16, 2016
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