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Nice truck attacker was from Tunisia

The Nice attacker was not known by the Tunisian authorities to hold radical or Islamist views, security sources say.

Crime scene investigator works on the truck
The Nice attacker was not known by the Tunisian authorities to hold radical or Islamist views. (AAP)

An attacker who drove a heavy truck into crowds in the French city of Nice killing at least 84 people came from the Tunisian town of Msaken which he last visited four years ago, Tunisian security sources say.

The man, identified by French police sources as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was not known by the Tunisian authorities to hold radical or Islamist views, the sources said.

Bouhlel was married with three children, they said. The sources did not say when he had last been resident in Tunisia, a former French colony.

Msaken is about 10km outside the coastal city of Sousse.


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