LOS ANGELES _ Three University of California, Berkeley students studying abroad were injured in the Nice, France, terrorist attack on Thursday, while a fourth student remains missing and unaccounted for, school officials confirmed Friday.
The missing student was identified as Nicolas Leslie, 20, a junior from Del Mar. University officials are working with local police, the U.S. consular office and his family to locate him, the university said.
Three other students also studying aboard in Nice were injured in the terrorist attack. Two sustained broken legs and were being treated at an area hospital. The third student suffered a broken foot. None of the three students was identified by name.
About 10:30 p.m., a rented refrigerated truck moving at 25 to 30 mph crashed into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Promenade des Anglais, near Nice's Palais de la Mediterranee. At least 84 people were killed and 202 people have been injured, 52 of them critically.
The truck driver was gunned down by French authorities. He was identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, born in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Jan. 3, 1975.
The students were attending a 15-day Entrepreneurship and Innovation program in Europe. The program was part of the international European Innovation Academy, according to a UC Berkeley press statement.
Leslie, a junior majoring in the College of Natural Resources, is one of 85 students attending the study abroad program.
"We have 85 over there. We found 84," said university spokeswoman Claire Holmes. "We're devastated. ... We're hoping that Nick is coming home."
The program director, Ken Singer, has visited the three injured students in the hospital, Holmes said. All three will return home to the U.S. before the program has ended.
University officials have suspended the program temporarily to observe three days of mourning in France, and will continue it through its planned end date on July 24. The university offered to fly students home if they wanted to leave before it ended.
According to Leslie's Facebook page, he is from Milan, Italy, and went to Torrey Pines High School in San Diego. Holmes said the missing student is known for being active in the campus community and has an interest in economics.
Leslie's uncle, Fabeo Bottini, and Bottini's wife went from hospital to hospital looking for his nephew, The Wall Street Journal reported. He was staying in student housing, but didn't return to the building after the attack.
"Yesterday he was in the zone of the accident. From yesterday, we don't know _ he is missing," he told the newspaper.
His uncle said a friend saw Leslie running away from the promenade as the truck was passing.
"Maybe he is alive, but I don't know, maybe he is confused," he said.
Vice Provost Cathy Koshland and dean of students Joseph Defraine expressed condolences for the families, students and French community for the "tragic event" and "senseless violence."
The Nice attack is the latest tragedy to strike the Bay Area campus in less than a month.
Student Tarishi Jain was one of 20 hostages killed July 1 during a standoff at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Bangladesh. Authorities said armed extremists stormed into the bakery, saying they wanted to kill non-Muslims. In a battle with security forces, six attackers were killed.
