Georgia Tech student witnesses France truck attack

Brendan Phillips heard the sound he thought was fireworks before police cars rushed by going about 60 mph, he said.

A French official said to Phillips, “Go, quickly,” he said.

The truck hit dozens of pedestrians on the Promenade des Anglais near the center of town in Nice.

A witness told The Associated Press that there were “bodies everywhere.”

Wassim Bouhlel, a Nice native who spoke to the AP near Nice’s Promenade du Paillon, said that he saw a truck drive into the crowd and then witnessed the man emerge with a gun and start shooting.

The Paris prosecutor’s office was quoted by French TV as saying 60 people are dead.