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Today in History: Deliberate truck attack kills 86 in Nice

7/14/2026

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On Bastille Day evening, 14 July 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck into crowds on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, killing 86 and wounding 458. Police engaged him in a gunfight and shot him dead, ending the deadliest terrorist attack on French soil in decades.

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On Bastille Day evening, 14 July 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a 19-tonne truck into crowds on Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, killing 86 and wounding 458. Police engaged him in a gunfight and shot him dead, ending the deadliest terrorist attack on French soil in decades.