Timeline: The Bastille Day attack in Nice

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Times local (GMT +2, EST+6) July 11: The big, white refrigerator truck involved in the killings is hired in Saint-Laurent-du-Var, just outside Nice. Molins confirms the attacker is Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, known to police for petty crime and violence but is not suspected of Islamist militancy. 2200: A fireworks display attended by some 30,000 locals and tourists, including many children, begins near a tourist office on the Promenade des Anglais, a wide boulevard lined with palm trees and vast walking areas on the water's edge that was closed to traffic for the occasion.

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