Three UC Berkeley students studying abroad in Nice, France, were injured in Thursday’s terror attack after a truck drove through a crowd gathered for Bastille Day celebrations.
The public university located in Berkeley, Calif., didn’t release the names of those injured. But it did say another student, Nick Leslie, is still unaccounted for. Leslie is a 20 year-old junior from Del Mar, Calif., majoring in the College of Natural Resources.
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“Campus study abroad, risk services office and student affairs staff are working with fellow students in France, the program director on the ground, local officials, U.S. consular officials and the family to locate [Leslie],” the university said in a statement Friday.
A friend of Leslie’s said he never saw the truck hit him, but did see Leslie “bolting off through the streets of Old Nice.” However Leslie’s aunt said he never returned to his student housing Thursday night, The Daily Beast reported.
UC Berkeley said two of the injured students sustained broken legs and were being treated in the hospital, while a third had a broken foot.
The university currently has 85 students attending their study abroad program in Europe.
According to the university, it will bring home any students who wish to leave the program before its end date. Three students have chosen to do so and return to the United States.
Vice Provost Cathy Koshland and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell extended their condolences to anyone affected by this “tragic event” and “senseless violence.”
On July 1, UC Berkeley sophomore Tarishi Jain was among 20 hostages killed by Islamic State militants in an attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
In the Thursday night attack, a man identified as 31-year-old Tunisian-born delivery driver Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove his truck into a crowd for roughly one mile. Ten children and adolescents were among the 84 people killed — including an American father and son. More than 200 others were wounded.
