Dalhousie student's photo captures Nice crowd just 4 minutes before attack
Adam Stang and his girlfriend were standing in the spot where truck rammed crowd just moments later
"So terrifying."
That's how Dalhousie University student Adam Stang describes the atmosphere in French city of Nice in the minutes after an attack that killed more than 80 people last week.
Stang is currently travelling in Europe with his girlfriend. The pair happened to be in Nice on Bastille Day and were among the thousands of people who gathered along the city's seafront promenade to watch the fireworks on July 14.
Stang told CBC News he took this photo of the fireworks in the same spot where a truck sped through the crowd. He said he took this photo just four minutes before the attack.
The couple then moved off the promenade.
"I raised my camera up to take a shot of how busy it was just before we turned off the street," said Stang.
"That's in front of the Hotel Méridien facing west, the direction that the truck came from."
The pair were unharmed, but were caught up in the flood of people fleeing the scene.
"We had to hide in the back of a restaurant with a bunch of other tourists after the stampede of people running forced us in there," said Stang.
"The whole place was destroyed by people running, pushing, fighting into hiding spots. So terrifying."
With files from Sabrina Fabian