UPDATE | 84 dead, 202 hurt as truck hits Bastille Day crowd in Nice

NICE, France (AP) — French leaders extended the country's 8-month-old state of emergency today and vowed to deploy thousands of police reservists on the streets after a Tunisian man drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, killing 84 people and wounding 202 others.

Thursday night's massacre of pedestrians leaving a fireworks display along the southern city's famed boulevard ended only after police killed the armed attacker in a hail of bullets.

Video shot by witnesses shows the truck coming under police gunfire as it drives through an intersection along the palm tree-lined Promenade des Anglais, which had been turned into a pedestrian walkway for the independence day celebrations. Crowds fled in panic, taking shelter in shops, hotels or leaping off the elevated pavement onto the beach below. Police finally surround the stationary truck and fatally shoot its driver.

Police identified the attacker as Mohamed Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Nice resident and delivery driver, and said he had drawn a gun on them. The truck's front windshield was riddled with bullets, Bouhlel's body slumped inside.

Chief prosecutor Francois Molins said police risked their own lives trying to stop the truck as it traveled 2 kilometers (1 ¼ miles) down the promenade.

Molins said Bouhlel's estranged wife was arrested in Nice toiday, while Bouhlel narrowly avoided being put behind bars months before the attack.