On the evening of 14 July 2016, 84 people were killed and 303 injured when a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France.[4][5][6] The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian resident of France.[7][8] The attack ended following an exchange of gunfire during which police surrounded the truck and shot the driver, killing him.