Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel identified as French-Tunisian man behind lorry massacre
Submitted by IWB, on July 15th, 2016
The man who killed more than 80 people with a truck in Nice has been locally identified.
The driver of the lorry was 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, according to newspaper Nice-Matin which cited local sources, who is from Nice.
Police had previously said that they had formally identified the man, after finding ID papers and a phone in the truck he used to kill 84 people on Thursday night, during Nice’s Bastille Day celebrations. He had been shot by police at the end of the attack.
The attack appears to have been premeditated, the local paper said, citing police sources. The man might have hired the truck on Wednesday in a town near Nice, it reported, and CCTV him picking up the vehicle in the hills outside the city.