a large cargo truck into a crowd of people who had been watching a Bastille Day fireworks display.

The massacre didn’t end until police shot and killed Bouhlel, who also is said to have been armed.

Video shot by witnesses shows the truck coming under police gunfire as it drives through an intersection along the palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais, which had been turned into a pedestrian walkway for the national day celebrations.

Forensic officers stand near a truck with its windscreen riddled with bullets that plowed through a crowd of revelers who had gathered to watch the fireworks in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016 | AP Photo by Claude Paris, St. George News

Crowds fled in panic, taking shelter in shops, hotels or leapingoff the elevated pavement onto the beach below. Police finally surrounded the stationary truck and fatally shot its driver.

French officials called it an undeniable act of terror, but no group claimed responsibility and it wasn’t clear if Bouhlel had extremist ties.

The country is still reeling from the Nov. 13 attacks, which killed 130 people at the Bataclan concert hall, Paris restaurants and cafes, and the national stadium, and a separate Jan. 2015 in Paris that targeted journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and Jews at a kosher supermarket.

Both attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group, and French President Francois Hollande was booed in Nice on Friday by people who blamed government authorities for failing to enforce sufficient security measures.

According to The Associated Press, 52 of the