Nice attack: Scores dead as truck plows into Bastille Day revellers 7 Photos . Updated: 15 Jul 2016, 02:36 PM IST Livemint A gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice on Thursday, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores more. In pictures 1/7A gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck ploughed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day (or French National Day) in the French Riviera town of Nice on Thursday, killing at least 84 people and injuring scores more. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP 2/7The attacker, identified by a police source as a 31-year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman, also opened fire before police shot him dead. Valery Hache/AFP 3/7The attack, which came eight months and a day after Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers struck Paris, seemed so far to be the work of a lone assailant. There had been no claim of responsibility on Friday morning. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP 4/7Forensics experts evacuate a dead body on the Promenade des Anglais seafront. Boris Horvat/AFP 5/7Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve (2nd left) said 18 of the injured were in a critical condition. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP 6/7Ambulances line up near the scene of the attack. AP 7/7Parents of victims mourn near the scene of the attack. Luca Bruno/AP