Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel has been identified as the man who killed nearly 100 people in Nice, France on Thursday night.
As previously reported, tragedy stuck this city during a celebration of Bastille Day last night, with this 31-year-old French-Tunisian allegedly plowing through a crowd of people with his truck.
He drove it nearly two kilometers, taking out a multitude of revelers in the process.
At the latest count, 84 people had been killed in the attack and over 100 injured.
However, French President Francois Hollande said this morning that the death toll is expected to rise throughout the coming days.
According to The Associated Press, he said that around 50 people are hovering between life and death as a result of Bouhlel’s unspeakable actions.
Hollande explained that the truck attack was done “to satisfy the cruelty of an individual, and maybe a group,” adding that France is “facing a struggle, which will be long.”
In light of this terrorist action, President Obama released the following statement yesterday evening:
“We stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack.”
Multiple eyewitnesses have also spoken to various outlets over the last 12 hours or so, documents what they saw on the street.
“There was carnage on the road,” Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native, told The AP, saying “bodies [were] everywhere.”
Regarding Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel:
CNN says the suspected attacker was known to police for nothing more than petty crimes.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the mass murder, althought officers are searching Bouhlel’s home in the Abattoirs neighborhood of the French Riviera city for clues or evidence.
Aside from just driving the truck through a sea of humanity, Bouhlel has loaded up the vehicle with arms and grenades, according to the AP.
He opened his door upon eventually stopping and then opened fire, prior to being killed in a shoout with police.
We send our thoughts and prayers to the victims of this attack.