President Obama called the Bastille Day massacre in Nice, France, a “horrific terrorist attack” in a statement issued late Thursday.

“On behalf of the American people, I condemn in the strongest terms what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed and wounded dozens of innocent civilians,” Obama wrote in a statement.

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