After 36 hours, ISIS has claimed responsibility for Thursday night's truck attack in Nice, saying the French-Tunisian man behind the atrocity was one of its soldiers. "The person who carried out the operation in Nice, France to run down people was one of the soldiers of Islamic State," ISIS said in a statement released through the pro-extremist news agency Amaq. "He carried out the operation in response to calls to target nationals of states that are part of the coalition fighting Islamic State." The group did not name 31-year-old attacker Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who had no previous known links to jihadists, nor did it offer any evidence that he had been acting in the name of ISIS, reports the Guardian. In other developments:
- Early Saturday, French authorities detained five people, including Bouhlel's estranged wife, over suspected links to the attack, the BBC reports