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Saturday, 16 July 2016

Newspaper headlines: Attack in Nice and Turkey coup attempt


Times front page
The Nice truck attack in France dominates the front pages, with the Times saying that 52 people were critically ill after a Tunisian delivery driver with a history of wife-beating and road rage drove a lorry into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing 84 people.



Guardian front page
The Guardian's front page features an emotive picture of those grieving after the Nice attack. The paper reports that French investigators were scrambling to establish why a 31-year-old French-Tunisian with no obvious links to terror groups or radicals rented a 19-tonne truck and killed at least 84 people, including 10 children, on the seafront in Nice.

Mail front page
The Daily Mail pictures three abandoned baby buggies, reflecting the apparent indiscriminate nature of the attack. The Mail says: "At least 10 children died when an Islamist maniac drove a truck into crowds of Bastille Day revellers."

Sun front page
"Why?" simply asks the Sun. The paper pictures a survivor sitting in prayer and reflection next to the covered body of a victim. The Sun reports that a weeping man with a French Tricolour said: "Why us? Why France again."