Five people have been arrested by the French police in connection with the Nice attack in which 84 people were killed, says the Paris prosecutor’s office.
Three arrests were made on Saturday and two on Friday, including the man’s estranged wife, Le Monde reported.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry into crowds marking Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police.
So-called Islamic State claimed one of its followers carried out the attack.
A news agency linked to the group, Amaq Agency, said: “He did the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the coalition that is fighting the Islamic State.”
French Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel seemed to have been “radicalised very quickly”.
He said the “new type of attack… showed the extreme difficulty of the fight against terrorism”.
Prosecutors said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, drove the lorry 2km (1.2 miles) along the promenade targeting people.
Of the 84 who died, 10 were children. A total of 303 people had been taken into hospital following the attacks, the French health department confirmed on Saturday. Of those, 121 remain in hospital, 30 of whom are children, and 26 people are still in intensive care – including five children.
Stephanie Simpson, from the Lenval children’s hospital in Nice, said one was in a “very bad” condition, three were on artificial respiration, one had been stabilised and one eight-year-old child remained unidentified.
Source: BBC News
