Nassau Police Intensifying Patrols After France Terror Attack

Nassau County Police are resuming two person patrols and intensifying patrols in all areas of mass transit and critical infrastructure following Thursday's terror attack in Nice, France that has left at least 84 people dead.

Nassau Police will increase patrols at any significant public events.

Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Acting Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter released a statement Friday morning expressing "their condolences to the people of Nice, France in light of the recent terrorist attacks."

"Although there are no known imminent threats to Nassau County, police are monitoring the situation along with federal, state and local authorities," the statement says.

A truck full of bombs and other munitions drove through a shower of police bullets Thursday and into a densely packed crowd celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake, according to officials and local media reports.

Sebastien Humbert, the prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, told France's BFM TV that the lorry driver had been shot dead. A French newspaper has identified the driver as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, Tunisian-born Frenchman.

Nice is a small but notable liberal enclave for the arts and a popular tourist destination on the French Rivera in Southeast France.

One eyewitness told BFM TV: "Everyone was calling run, run, run there's an attack run, run, run. We heard some shots. We thought they were fireworks because it's the 14th of July.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed state law enforcement officials to step up security at high-profile locations around the state, including our airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems.

"The horrific rampage in Nice is a direct attack on the universal values our two countries have long championed and upheld," Cuomo said in a statement. "As the French people came together to celebrate liberty and unity on their independence day, extremists sought to undermine it with hate and intolerance. They will not succeed. New York stands united with France and all our allies in the face of terror. This is not only an attack on France, but an attack on democracy."

With reporting by Marc Torrence