Torrey Pines Grad Missing After Nice, France Attack

San Diego, CA — A Torrey Pines High School graduate who now attends University of California at Berkeley has been missing since Thursday's terrorist attack in Nice, France, that left more than 80 dead and many struggling for their lives.

Nick Leslie, from Del Mar, is studying abroad and staying in student housing in Nice, France, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Leslie’s family has launched a desperate search for the 20-year-old.

An aunt and uncle who live there are searching for him, the Journal reports, "Fabeo Bottini, has reportedly gone from local hospital to hospital searching for information about the missing nephew."

A friend told the family that they saw Leslie running away after the attack, but Leslie didn’t return to student housing last night and has not contacted his family.

UC Berkeley said in a statement that Leslie is one of 85 of the school's students studying abroad in Nice. The school has confirmed that three of them were injured, but that Leslie was still unaccounted for.

"Campus study abroad, risk services office and student affairs staff are working with fellow students in France, the program director on the ground, local officials, U.S. consular officials and the family to locate him. Leslie is a junior majoring in the College of Natural Resources," according to the statement.

All of the UC Berkeley students were attending a 15-day program called Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe, part of the international European Innovation Academy.

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— Patch Local Editor Bea Karnes contributed to this report.

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