Eighty-five people are still in hospital following the Bastille Day attack in Nice, 18 of them – including one child – in a critical condition, France’s health minister, Marisol Touraine, has said.
Twenty-nine people are in intensive care, Touraine added. Only one person who was killed in Thursday’s attack was yet to be identified.
A spokesperson for the Lenval children’s hospital in Nice said officials had at last identified a seven-year-old boy in a coma whose picture had been circulated on social media after no relatives stepped forward immediately.
Stephanie Simpson said the boy was Romanian and had been visiting Nice with his parents. His grandmother travelled from Germany on Saturday to make the identification after a relative in Nice reported the family missing.
The boy is among six children still in hospital after the attack, Simpson said. She said he was on artificial respiration and had not undergone any surgery. Simpson said: “There is still hope he is going to wake up.”
Almost three days after the deadly truck attack in Nice that killed 84 people and injured more than 200, the search is ongoing for a young US student who has not been seen since Thursday night.
Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old student at UC Berkeley, was one of 85 American students who were in Nice at the time of the attack on the Promenade des Anglais. The 22-year-old Canada-based Ukrainian national Misha Bazelevsky and 21-year-old Estonian Rickard Kruusberg, also participants on the European Innovation Academy programme, are also unaccounted for, said a spokeswoman, Annie Seneard.
A fourth missing student from the academy, the 22-year-old Estonian Hans Joosep Lahe, has been located.
The students had gone to watch the Bastille Day fireworks display on the seafront when Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhel struck.
A spokesman for the US embassy in Paris said everything possible was being done to try to find Leslie. “Right now, we can confirm that one US citizen is still missing,” he said. “We are doing everything we can and have mobilised all our resources.”
The spokesman said two US citizens had been killed in the attack and several injured. Sean Copeland, 51, and his son Brodie, 11, from Lakeway near Austin, Texas, had been on a European family holiday when they were killed on the promenade.
“We are heartbroken and in shock over the loss of Brodie Copeland, an amazing son and brother who lit up our lives, and Sean Copeland, a wonderful husband and father,” the family said in a statement. “They are so loved.”
Among the injured Americans are three other UC Berkeley students. Vladyslav Kostiuk, 23, sustained a broken leg, as did Daryus Medora, 21, while Diane Huang, 20, suffered a broken foot.
At least a dozen members of Nice’s Russian community were killed or wounded in the attack, according to the president of the association of the Russian cathedral of St Nicholas in Nice.
Viktoria Savchenko, a 21-year-old studying at the Moscow-based Academy of Finance, was killed in the attack. According to the RIA Novosti news agency, she was with her friend and fellow student Polina Serebryannikova, 22, when the truck crashed into them, the Moscow Times reported. Serebryannikova sustained leg injuries and was taken to hospital.
