Four people in custody after Nice attack: judicial source
Four men believed to be linked to the Tunisian, who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice were arrested overnight today, a judicial source said.
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One of the men being held was arrested yesterday and three others this morning, the source added. The driver's estranged wife is also being detained by police.
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The new arrests came as French President Francois Hollande met with the head of the armed forces and ministers after calling a meeting of his top security advisors in Paris.
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Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, smashed a 19-tonne truck into a mass of people as the traditional July 14 national day fireworks celebration was ending in the French Riviera city.
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At least ten children and teenagers were killed, with around 50 other children injured, some of them "hanging between life and death", a hospital official said.
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Investigators were piecing together a profile of Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a man with a record of petty crime and domestic violence, but no known connection to terrorist groups.
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Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the attacker probably had links to radical Islam, but Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve cautioned it was too early to make the connection.