France declares three-day national mourning after truck attack: PM

Graphic content: Rescue workers help an injured woman to get in a ambulance on July 15, 2016, after a truck drove into a crowd watching a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice leaving at least 60 dead and scores injured in an “attack” after a Bastille Day fireworks display, prosecutors said on July 15. / AFP PHOTO

Also the Sunni Islam’s leading seat of learning Al-Azhar on Friday condemned a deadly truck attack in Nice on France’s national holiday, urging unity to “rid the world” of “terrorism.”

“These vile terrorist attacks contradict Islamic teachings,” the Cairo-based institution said in a statement after Thursday evening’s attack, which killed at least 84 people and wounded scores more.

“Al-Azhar… affirms the necessity of uniting efforts to defeat terrorism and rid the world of its evil.”