73 dead in French truck terror attack

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Not clear yet but horrible, from AFR:

At least 73 people were killed and many more injured after truck was driven at high speed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in the southern French coastal resort of Nice, French media has reported.

A gunman reportedly got out of the lorry and fired into the crowd on the seafront Promenade des Anglais, an area popular with tourists in the Riviera resort, leaving dead and injured people lying in the street.

He was shot dead by police but there are unconfirmed reports that an accomplice had fled and that guns and grenades were found in the lorry. By midnight the death toll had reached 72, according to French newspaper Le Figaro, quoting a police source. Reuters reported at least 73 people had died.

Reports that the driver has been killed in shootout with police…

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.