Police arrest Bastille Day killer's WIFE as dramatic footage shows moment Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot dead in the truck he used to drive through crowds, killing 84 people including 10 children
- WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Terrorist uses lorry to mow down crowds during Bastille Day celebrations in Nice
- Death toll currently stands at 84, 202 were injured, 52 are in a critical condition and 25 are on life support machines
- ID card belonging to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a French Tunisian man, 31, from Nice, found next to his body
- His cousin said Bouhlel, a father of three, told MailOnline he flouted every rule of Islam, beat his wife and took drugs
- Police say terrorist's wife Hajer arrested and in custody as officers work on his motives and if he had accomplices
- At least 10 babies and children were killed, some in buggies, with least 54 children also being treated in hospital
- Eyewitnesses said driver zig-zagged at 40mph to hit crowds of people who were sent flying or jammed under wheels
Police today arrested the wife of the ISIS fanatic who killed 84 people including at least ten children in Nice using a lorry and a handgun.
Killer
Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, a French Tunisian and married father of
three, mounted pavements at high speed and ploughed through crowds
celebrating Bastille Day in Nice last night.
Today Paris prosecutor
Francois Molins said police have arrested his wife Hajer, who he was
about to divorce, as detectives try to establish his motives and if he
had accomplices.
Dramatic
footage released today shows the moment he was shot dead by police in
the 19-tonne lorry he used as a murder weapon on his mile-long killing
spree.
One
eyewitness filmed armed officers approaching the cab of the lorry and
firing repeatedly through its windscreen and doors before it appears
Bouhlel can be heard screaming after being hit by a police bullet and he
died slumped in the passenger seat.
Witness Nadar El Shafei told the BBC: 'He
died inside the vehicle - I saw his head [hanging] out of the window,
they kept shooting him from all sides just to be sure. Then they asked
us to run away in case there were others inside the car or a bomb.'
The
shootout came after his 30 minute rampage where he aimed at crowds
watching fireworks and sent 'bodies flying like bowling pins' and left
others 'jammed' under the lorry's wheels at around 10.30pm local time
last night.
This
evening the death toll stands at 84 with another 202 injured. Of those
52 are in hospital in a critical condition and 25 of them are on life
support machines.
Heartbroken
men and women refused to leave the bodies of their loved ones and the
dead remain strewn across the famous Promenade des Anglais today.
Hundreds have now laid flowers in their memory as President Hollande
said 'many foreigners have died' with at least 50 more people 'between
life and death'.
WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
Pictured: This is reputedly the ID
card in the name of terror suspect Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel found in
the cab of the lorry used to mow down and murder 84 people and injure
dozens more who were among 30,000 on the seafront last night
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