I'd like to buy this guy a drink!
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An unidentified hero helped to bring the terrorist attack in Nice in southern France to an end by leaping into the killer’s truck and seizing his gun, according to reports.
The attacker, who French authorities identified on Friday as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, from Tunisia, killed at least 84 people and injured hundreds more by speeding through the crowded Promenade des Anglais, where revelers had gathered Thursday night to celebrate Bastille Day.
Police sources in the French Riviera city told the Independent, a U.K.-based online newspaper, that the unknown hero jumped into the attacker’s white truck after it had come to a stop because its path had been obstructed.
The killer fired several shots at the man and police officers responding to the scene, but no one was injured. The anonymous hero then wrestled with Bouhlel and seized his revolver before two officers shot and killed the terrorist, the report said.
Forensic officers stand near the truck that an attacker used to plow through people who had gathered to watch fireworks Thursday night in Nice, France.
François Molins, the antiterrorism prosecutor for France, said the intelligence community was not aware of Bouhlel before the attack but that his actions aligned with recent calls from jihadi groups, such as the Islamic State, to murder civilians.
Local lawmaker Eric Ciotti told Europe 1, a French-language radio station in France and Switzerland, that he witnessed the chaos erupting along the famous promenade in Nice. He said several people tried to escape by fleeing into the sea.
Ciotti also said that he saw someone jump into the vehicle and help police take out the attacker.
“A person jumped onto the truck to try to stop it,” Ciotti told the radio station, according to the Associated Press. “It’s at that moment that the police were able to neutralize this terrorist. I won’t forget the look of this policewoman who intercepted the killer.”
Video footage of Bouhlel’s final moments showed police surrounding his stopped, heavily damaged truck and firing bullets through the windshield.
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