Italian foreign ministry sources
said Friday three Italians were injured in last night's terror
attack in Nice, two of them critically.
A Cuneo-area man was in critical condition after the
killing spree in which a gun-toting French-Tunisian truck driver
ploughed through crowds watching Bastille Day fireworks for
about two kms before being shot dead by police.
Relatives of Andrea Avagnina, 53, a town councillor at San
Michele Mondovì near Cuneo, found him at Nice's Pasteur Hospital
following the attack that killed at least 84 people - including
10 children and teens - in the French Riviera town.
His wife Marinella Ravotti, 55, who works at the local
health agency in Mondovì, is missing. The couple was on vacation
in the southern French city, where they own a home.
"I'm in touch with the foreign ministry crisis unit," said
San Michele Mondovì Mayor Domenico Michelotti. "We beg anyone
with news to contact the authorities".
As well, Italian couple Angelo D'Agostino, 71, and Gianna
Muset, 68, became unreachable after 21:55 last night.
"We're desperate," the couple's daughter-in-law, who is
married to the couple's son Massimiliano, told ANSA. "D'Agostino
is 1.70 meters tall, weighs about 70 kilos, has white hair and
was wearing blue jeans and a blue T-shirt".
D'Agostino and his wife were celebrating his retirement
with a trip to the Cote d'Azur. The family is from the town of
Voghera in Pavia province.
Many Italians either lost their cellphones or didn't go
home or to their hotels after the attack, Italian Nice
Consul-General Serena Lippi told ANSA Friday. "We can't trace
many Italians, who are therefore classified as missing," she
said, while calling for "calm". She said "we are working closely
with the Italian foreign ministry in Rome and the Italian
ambassador (Giandomenico Magliano) is on his way from Paris".
Lippi later confirmed to ANSA that no Italian children were
killed or injured.
So far the official tally is of 202 wounded, 52 of them
critical.
Back in Italy, security at Rome's Fiumicino airport
remained high and security was beefed up at the Ventimiglia
border post with France. "We have heard that fugitives could be
heading into Italy, although for now there is no concrete
evidence," a police official said.
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