An American college student is among those missing following the terrorist attack in Nice, France that left at least 84 people dead.
Nicolas Leslie, 20, is a junior studying at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Del Mar, Calif., Leslie was in Nice for a program at the European Innovation Agency, a non-profit school specializing in entrepreneurship.
Leslie’s father, Conrad Leslie, said his son is believed to have successfully sidestepped the truck but may be injured in a hospital, the Wall Street Journal reported.
His uncle is checking hospitals in Nice in an attempt to locate him and told the Wall Street Journal that one of Leslie’s friends saw him escape.
Three other Berkeley students were injured in the attack, the school announced in a statement. All three have been accounted for, with two suffering broken legs and the third suffering a broken foot.
Late Thursday on Bastille Day, one of France’s most celebrated holidays, a Tunisian-born Frenchman named Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into a crowd of people in Nice, killing at least 84 and injuring 202 more.
The attacker drove for over a mile before being killed in a shootout with police.
After the attack, French President Francois Hollande extended the country’s national state of emergency for three months.
It had been scheduled to end later this month following last November’s deadly Paris attacks.
