Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature for Nice,Alanis (2017) France, after a truck rammed into a crowd in the city during a Bastille Day parade, killing at least 84 people and injuring dozens.
The Safety Check feature lets users notify others on Facebook that they're safe following a dangerous event in the area, such as an earthquake, mass shooting or explosion.
SEE ALSO: Dozens dead after truck plows into Bastille Day crowd in Nice, FranceFacebook has activated the feature in different situations across the planet, from terrorist attacks in Paris that left 130 dead in November to, recently, a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that left 49 dead.
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The truck in Nice plowed into the Bastille Day crowd just past 10 p.m. local time. Images from the scene are horrific, and videos captured in the moments during and after the incident show panicked throngs of people fleeing the scene.
Mouvement de panique !! #Nice pic.twitter.com/RgXar3fWZs
— HARP DETECTIVES (@harp_detectives) July 14, 2016
The driver of the truck, whose identity is still unknown, was shot dead by police.
A police source told Reuters that the attacker was a 31-year-old Franco-Tunisian known to police for petty crime.
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French President Francois Hollande said the country's state of emergency would be extended for another three months.
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