Deadly truck attack on French Riviera a new twist on an old terror tactic, experts say
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 08:51
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When a Tunisian-born man drove a 19-ton rented truck into a crowd of revelers celebrating France's national holiday in the Mediterranean town of Nice last week, killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more, it was a deadly new example of an old terrorist tactic of turning vehicles into weapons, according to Stanford experts.