At least 84 people, including a number of children, were killed and scores injured after a freight lorry ploughed through crowds of hundreds celebrating Bastille Day.
Witnesses say the driver, a 31-year-old French-Tunisian national, ‘zig-zagged’ for 1.2 miles on the Promenade des Anglais at about 11 pm local time, hitting helpless pedestrians. The driver was eventually shot dead by police when he opened fire on the crowd.
In Jersey the Town Hall had just finished hosting the vin d’honneur for Islanders to mark the French national day and assistant Chief Minister Philip Ozouf, who was at the French embassy in London at the time, said he heard of the attacks on the way home from the meeting.
