Nice terror attack: Isis claims responsibility for lorry massacre

The Islamic State (ISIS) terror organisation has claimed responsibility for lorry massacre that killed 84 people in the coastal city of Nice on Bastille Day, France’s national holiday.

French media quoted an ISIS security source as saying one of its "soldiers" carried out Thursday's carnage "in response to calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting (ISIS)".

Meanwhile, according to legal sources, four men believed to be linked to the Tunisian man who killed 84 people when he drove a truck into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice were arrested overnight Saturday.

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31, rammed a 19-tonne truck into a large crowd as July 14th fireworks were ending in the French Riviera city. His estranged wife is being held by the police.

At least 10 children were among the dead and 50 more were wounded, some of them "hanging between life and death".

French President Francois Hollande extended the state of emergency by three months.

Hollande, in a televised address to the nation, pledged that army reservists would be called up to help provide security across the country.
France has been in a state of emergency since November’s Paris attacks by Islamic State militants, in which 130 people were killed.