Injured Aust woman out of Nice hospital

A young Australian woman has been released from hospital in Nice after suffering a minor injury as she fled the terror attack on the city's waterfront.

A young Australian woman injured during the Bastille Day terror attack in Nice has been released from hospital and rejoined her tour group.

The woman was among a number of Australians on a Topdeck coach stop in Nice when a 31-year-old French-Tunisian national ploughed a truck through crowds gathered on the city's waterfront, leaving 84 people dead and others critically injured.

"The doctors have given her the green light. She genuinely is OK," Topdeck media spokesman Karl Webster told AAP on Friday.

He said the woman was "pretty shaken" after suffering a minor injury as she tried to get out of the way of the truck as people fled in panic on Thursday night.

Mr Webster said the young woman's family did not want her name or details of her injuries released or for her to talk to the media as she came to terms with the horrific attack.

All the Topdeck tour group members got back to their hotel safely and had now left Nice, Mr Webster said.

"We can breathe a sigh of relief. Our prime objective is to make sure our passengers are safe ... they are all 100 per cent safe," he said.

Topdeck said on its website that it was diverting its coach trips away from Nice this weekend.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said three Australians had suffered minor injuries in the terror attack as they fled the scene.

The truck driver, named by French media as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, fired a pistol several times during the attack before being shot dead by police.

Australian student Tori Anderson, believed to be on the same Topdeck tour as the injured woman, told the Nine Network her group had made a last-minute decision to stop at the Bastille Day celebrations on Nice's Promenade des Anglais.

"We thought we would just hop out and walk the rest of the way to our hotel and join in the fun," she said.

She said she turned around and say a truck ramming through the crowd.

"Dead bodies were just tangled everywhere and we just had to run for our lives," Ms Anderson said.


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