A terrorist attack in the southern resort city of Nice on France’s national holiday killed over 80 persons and injured more than 100. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova said it is not yet known if the casualties include Moldovans, IPN reports.

The Ministry and the Embassy of Moldova in France are making the required approaches to the local authorities with a view to obtaining information about the circumstances of the attack and the nationality of the victims. Moldova’s Embassy initiated the specific consular procedures and keeps in touch with the crisis cells set up by the French authorities.

The citizens of Moldova and their relatives can call the Embassy of Moldova in Paris on +33 674966891.

The phone numbers of the French crisis cells are: +33 143 175 646 and +33 493 722 222.

The citizens who are in the Republic of Moldova can contact free the Call Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 080090990, while from abroad on +373 22 788 722.

The senior state officials of Moldova offer their condolences to the families of those affected by the terror attack. “The Republic of Moldova is near France and is people. What happened in Nice is a too severe slap in the face of France. Terrorism must be condemned and wiped out so that manifestations of such a kind no longer happen in a democratic state and no innocent people die,” says the message of Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu.

A weapons-laden truck driven by a French man of Tunisian origin plowed through crowds of Bastille Day revelers in the evening of July 14. The driver barrelled the truck two kilometres through the crowd on the palm-lined Promenade des Anglais. The man then opened fire on the crowd before being shot dead by the police. Weapons and grenades had been discovered after the driver was killed.