Two more people arrested in connection to deadly Nice truck attack

Police have arrested a man and a woman in the French city of Nice in connection with the truck attack that killed at least 84 people celebrating Bastille Day.

Authorities have now detained seven people over the killings, claimed by Islamic State (ISIL)

The 31-year-old Tunisian killer, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, drove at the crowd in the Riviera city on Thursday night, zig-zagging along the seafront Promenade des Anglais for two kilometres as a fireworks display marking the French national day ended.

He was eventually shot dead by police. 

French authorities have yet to produce evidence that he had turned to radical Islam.

Nevertheless, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Bouhlel may have undergone a rapid change.

The latest arrests are said to have happened early this morning. 

ISIL has called on its supporters living in Europe to carry out lone-wolf attacks on Westerners, publishing a video early this year called "Kill wherever you find them."

French President Francois Hollande said in the wake of the Nice attack that France would strengthen its role in Iraq and Syria, where it is part of a US-led coalition fighting the jihadists.

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