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29 Oct, 17 tweets, 8 min read

#BREAKING Knife attack in French city Nice leaves one dead, several hurt: police source

#BREAKING Second person dies after knife attack at Nice church: govt source

#BREAKING French prosecutors say terror probe opened into Nice attack

#UPDATE A man wielding a knife at a church in the French city of Nice killed three people, slitting the throat of at least one, and injured several others before being apprehended by police, officials said Thursday
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#BREAKING Merkel voices solidarity with France after 'brutal' attack

#BREAKING France raises attack alert level to 'urgent'

#BREAKING Turkey 'strongly' condemns 'savage ' attack in Nice: foreign ministry

VIDEO: French police stand guard next to the basilica in central Nice where a man killed three people and wounded several others

#BREAKING Vatican says 'terrorism, violence never acceptable' after Nice attack

#UPDATE A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what officials are treating as the latest jihadist attack to rock the country

#BREAKING French police arrest Afghan armed with knife in Lyon: source close to inquiry

#BREAKING Macron denounces 'Islamic terrorist attack' in Nice

#BREAKING France 'will not give up on our values': Macron

#BREAKING Attacker in Nice a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant: inquiry sources

#BREAKING UN secretary-general condemns 'heinous attack' in Nice

#BREAKING Trump says 'our hearts' with France, urges 'stop' to terrorist attacks #NiceAttack

#UPDATE Police identified the man who allegedly used a knife to kill three people at a church in Nice, France as a 21-year-old Tunisian migrant who arrived in Italy in late September and later travelled to France #NiceAttack u.afp.com/3VvA

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