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[00:00.36]A driver killed more than 80 people and injured others
[00:04.84]when he crashed a large truck into a crowd in Nice, France Thursday night.
[00:12.48]People had gathered in Nice for a celebration of Bastille Day.
[00:18.44]Nice is the fifth-largest city in France.
[00:22.76]It is a port city about 30 kilometers from the Italian border.
[00:29.32]About 350,000 people live there.
[00:34.28]The driver was shot and killed.
[00:36.91]Police identified him as a 31-year-old French-Tunisian who lived in Nice.
[00:45.36]Police said he was known as a violent person and longtime criminal.
[00:52.72]But security forces did not suspect him of having links to terrorist groups. 
[01:00.28]The driver entered a street that was closed to traffic at the time.
[01:07.00]He crashed through a barrier, then drove through the crowd for up to two kilometers,
[01:14.48]speeding up and targeting people as they tried to flee.
[01:20.96]French President Francois Hollande spoke to the nation early Friday.
[01:27.08]He said "nothing will make us give way in the fight against terrorism."
[01:34.12]He talked about the terrorist attacks in Paris last November.
[01:39.56]He said all of France is being threatened by the Islamic State terrorist group.
[01:46.88]Hollande extended the country's state of emergency
[01:52.20]-- which was to end later this month -- for three months.
[01:57.40]He has also ordered 10,000 members of the military
[02:02.60]to help security forces throughout the country.
[02:06.96]And he said France will increase its roles in Syria and Iraq.
[02:13.82]This is the third large attack in France since last year.
[02:20.36]An attack in Paris in November killed at least 130 people
[02:26.56]and a series of attacks in January 2015
[02:32.20]that began with an assault on the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo killed 17 people.
[02:40.76]I'm Christopher Jones-Cruise.
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