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Death toll from Nice attack rises to 85 as man dies of injuries

French man Pierre Hattermann dies from injuries three weeks after Bastille Day attack

People standing in front of flowers, candles and messages laid at a makeshift memorial in Nice in tribute to the victims of the deadly attack on the Promenade des Anglais seafront which have now killed 85 people. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
People standing in front of flowers, candles and messages laid at a makeshift memorial in Nice in tribute to the victims of the deadly attack on the Promenade des Anglais seafront which have now killed 85 people. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
Thu Aug 04 2016 - 23:28

A man died on Thursday from injuries suffered three weeks earlier in the truck attack on crowds in the Riviera city of Nice, bringing the death toll to 85, authorities said.

Pierre Hattermann’s wife Francoise and son were killed in the attack, and his 14-year-old daughter is still in hospital, according to French newspaper Nice Matin and other media.

“All my thoughts with the daughter, family and relatives of Pierre Hattermann who just died,” the president of the Riviera region, Christian Estrosi, said on his Twitter account.

Islamic State claimed the attack and hailed Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove a truck through a crowd of revelers on Nice’s sea-front promenade on Bastille day before police shot him dead. – Reuters