Interpol deploys response team to Nice

Interpol says it has deployed an incident response team to Nice where a gunman at the wheel of a heavy truck drove it at a crowd and killed at least 84 people.

The France-based international police organisation said the team included terrorism and information specialists who would carry out real-time checks against its global databases.

President Francois Hollande said the attack was without doubt a terrorist act.

The team also includes identification expertise to assist with the global co-ordination of so-called ante-mortem data collection to help with the identification process of victims, Interpol said.