A French father saving his pregnant wife. A father and son from Texas. A young Russian woman. A German teacher and two of her students.
These are just some of the 84 people killed in Thursday’s Bastille Day attack in Nice, France.
Fatima Charrihi, a practicing Muslim who lived in France, was identified by media as one of the first people mowed down in the truck rampage on the southern city’s Promenade des Anglais.
“She was the first victim. My brother tried to resuscitate her, but doctors told us she died on the spot,” her son, Hamza, 28, told L’Express, a French newsmagazine.
He described his mother, who had been at the waterfront celebration for the French national holiday, as “extraordinary,” adding that she practiced “a true Islam — not the ‘Islam’ of the terrorists.”
Timothé Fournier, a 27-year-old Parisian, died after pushing his seven months pregnant wife out of the speeding truck’s way.
Polina Serebryannikova, a 22-year-old Russian student, was with her friend Viktoria Savchenko, 21, when the truck — driven by French-Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel — headed straight toward them.
“My friend was hit and died,” Serebryannikova, who was injured, told Britain’s Mirror newspaper.
Also among the dead were two Americans on vacation from Texas — identified as Sean Copeland, 51, and his 11-year-old son, Brodie.
The University of California, Berkeley, said three of its students were injured and one is unaccounted for.
He is Nicolas Leslie, 20.
Officials in Berlin said a German teacher and her two 12th-grade students were also slain. They had been on a trip from Berlin’s Paula Fürst School.
Facebook and Twitter accounts named SOS NICE were created Friday to help people find loved ones who were missing in the attack.
Annie Kleinschmidt, a New Yorker, tweeted out a photo of her aunt who had been among the crowd and was missing Friday.
“Looking for my aunt Claire Benchimoun and her sister Raymonde Maman,” she wrote.
With Post Wire Services
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