Man Dies in Nice From Attack Injuries; Toll Rises to 85

PARIS (Reuters) —
Emergency services vehicles work on the scene after a truck, left, plowed through Bastille Day revelers in the French resort city of Nice, France, Thursday, July 14, 2016. France was ravaged by its third attack in two years when a large white truck mowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, killing at dozens of people as it bore down on the crowd for more than a mile along the Riviera city's famed seaside promenade. (Sasha Goldsmith via AP)
Emergency services vehicles work on the scene after a truck  plowed through Bastille Day revelers in the French resort city of Nice, France, July 14. (Sasha Goldsmith via AP)

A man died on Thursday from injuries suffered three weeks earlier in the truck attack on crowds in the Riviera city of Nice, bringing the death toll to 85, authorities said.

Pierre Hattermann’s wife, Françoise, and son were killed in the attack, and his 14-year-old daughter is still in the hospital, according to French newspaper Nice Matin and other media sources.

“All my thoughts with the daughter, family and relatives of Pierre Hattermann who just died,” the president of the Riviera region, Christian Estrosi, said on his social media account.

The Islamic State terror group claimed the attack and hailed Tunisian-born Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who drove a truck through a crowd of revelers on Nice’s seafront promenade on Bastille day before police shot him dead.

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