YEREVAN. – Numerous people in Armenia are placing flowers outside the Embassy of France in Yerevan since early Friday morning, to pay tribute to the victims of Thursday night’s terror attack in Nice, France.

A truck ploughed into crowd in high speed in downtown Nice on Thursday at around 10։30pm, during Bastille Day celebrations.

Subsequently, its driver opened fire on people before police shot him dead.

Large quantities of weapons and explosives were found in the truck.

The driver of this vehicle was a 31-year-old French and Tunisian citizen. He previously was at the focus of the police for committing theft and hooliganism. 

According to most recent reports, 84 people are dead and 18 others are in very critical condition as a result of this terror attack.

Tigran Balayan, Spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, informed that an Armenian citizen was among the casualties of this tragedy.

Fr. Grigor Khachatryan, pastor of the Armenian church in Nice, for his part, told Armenian News-NEWS.am that the Armenian casualty was a 40-year-old woman, and that there are three Armenians among the injured.