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11 arrested over links with Nice terror attack: reports

Xinhua, December 13, 2016 Adjust font size:

French police on Monday arrested 11 people suspected of being involved in the truck attack in which 86 people were killed in southern city of Nice last July, local radio reported.

An anti-terror unit arrested 10 suspects in Nice and another in Nantes, west France over suspected links with Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, state-run Radio France Info said.

In July this year, Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a heavy truck into crowds during French national day celebrations in Nice, and killed scores in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.

Investigators suspect them of providing logistical help to the Nice attacker, according to the report.

The latest arrests are said to be of people linked to an Albanian couple arrested in July on charges of supplying the 31-old-man with weapons, the report added. Endit