One man jumped to action and helped stop the Nice, France terror attack that left 84 dead, at least 10 of those who were children, reportedThe Independent. The man jumped into the truck and wrestled with the attacker who drove two kilometers running over crowds of people before shooting into the crowd.
"A person jumped on to the truck to try to stop it," Eric Ciotti, an eyewitness, told radio station Europe 1.
The man reportedly jumped into the truck when the truck got held up by something in the road. There he wrestled with the driver who reportedly got a revolver and fired at the man as well as the two police officers who approached the truck. No one was hurt by gunfire. Police then fatally shot the suspect reportedThe Independent.
Ciotti told Europe 1: "It's at that moment that the police were able to neutralise this terrorist. I won't forget the look of this policewoman who intercepted the killer."
Another eyewitness, Nader El Shafei, told the BBC police asked the attacker to step out of the car, but he didn't, instead pulling a gun out.
"They knew that would be a gun shooting so they just killed him right away—they did not wait to negotiate or something, they just opened fire on him," said Shafei.
According toThe Independent, police sources in Nice said the attacker could've gotten further than two kilometers (killing more people in the process) had the brave man not taken action.
The attacker was later identified as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a French national originally from Tunisia and a father of three.
The Telegraph reported another man also tried to stop the Nice attacker, but was unsuccessful.
Video shows the man riding a motorcycle alongside the speeding truck. According to a witness the man was trying to grab onto the truck’s door but ultimately couldn't do so with other witnesses tellingThe Telegraph he fell right under the truck's tires. He has not been identified reported The Telegraph.
