Three Arrested in Police Raid after Nice Truck Attack

Local Editor

French police arrested three people in Nice early on Saturday in connection with the probe into the Bastille Day attack that killed at least 84 people when a truck rammed into crowds in the Riviera city, police sources said.

French authorities were still trying to determine whether the 31-year old Tunisian driver of the vehicle had acted alone or with accomplices, and whether his motives were connected to extremist Takfiri thought.

The arrests concerned the attacker's "close entourage", the sources said, and were made in two different areas of Nice.

A Reuters reporter saw about 40 elite police raid a small apartment at Rue Miollis, north of the central station, where one individual was arrested.

Earlier on Friday, a man was also arrested on the same suspicions.

Meanwhile, the driver's estranged wife is also still being held by police.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team