Italy says five of the 84 dead in the Nice truck attack were Italians, including two couples celebrating a recent retirement.
The Foreign Ministry names the dead as Maria Grazia Ascoli, 77, and Mario Casati, 90, of Milan; Angelo D’Agostino, 71, and his wife Gianna Muset, 68, both of Voghera, and Carla Gaveglio, 48, of Piasco, in the Piedmont region.
Italian news reports says Ascoli and Casati, along with D’Agostino and Muset, had traveled to Nice together to celebrate D’Agostino’s retirement.
The Italian Foreign Ministry says in a statement that French authorities had formalized the identification overnight. It says the families had been notified and expresses its solidarity “to the family and friends of the victims of the barbarous attack.”
A police officer watches people gathering around a floral tribute for the victims killed during a deadly attack in Nice, southern France, Sunday, July 17, 2016. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)
— AP
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