Nice attack: Victims killed on Bastille Day represented nearly 30 countries
Dead included those from as far away as Brazil, Madagascar and Ukraine student in Edmonton
Some 38 of the 84 people killed on the sea front in Nice by a truck-driving man as they celebrated Bastille Day on July 14 were foreigners, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
It said the victims came from 19 countries including Algeria, Germany, Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, United States, Georgia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Morocco, Poland, Russia, Romania, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey and Ukraine.
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Ukraine citizen Mykhaylo Bazelevskyy, who had been studying at Edmonton's MacEwan University, is believed to have been killed. A spokesman from the Ukrainian Embassy in Ottawa said a man matching the description of the 22-year-old Bazelevskyy had died.
The ministry said the list of wounded people had not been finalised yet but when including them, the number of countries involved was 29.
Dozens were hurt and 19 people remained on life support five days after the carnage French state prosecutor Francois Molins described as a terrorist act.
Nice is France's second most visited city in France after Paris.
