Bastille Day Attack

The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to have a 2.5 metre-high wall of reinforced glass built around it as protection against terror attacks, officials say.

The French Prime Minister has been booed as he attended a minute's silence in Nice, where an attacker driving a lorry killed 84 people.

The man who drove a lorry into crowds of people in Nice, killing 80, researched the route in the days before the attack, French media have reported.

Four men are reported to be in police custody as Islamic State claims responsibility for the attack that killed 84 people on Bastille Day.

Three days of national mourning are beginning in France for the victims of a horrific attack in Nice that killed at least 84 people and injured more than 200.

Panicked and confused people ran through the streets after the deadly truck attack in Nice, witnesses tell Checkpoint with John Campbell. Video, Audio

The truck driver who killed at least 84 people on Bastille Day in Nice was a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian born in Tunisia, a police source says. Audio

The mass killing in Nice is the latest in a series of bloody attacks in France in the past 18 months, starting with the shootings at Charlie Hebdo.

A truck has ploughed into a crowd in France celebrating Bastille Day, killing 80 people and injuring others. Review RNZ's live online coverage.

A New Zealander studying in Nice heard screaming and saw people running after an attack in the French city. Audio