Facebook Helps Find Infant Lost in Nice Truck Attack

She saw the baby’s photo on Facebook, and was able to make contact with the baby’s family through the social media network.

The child was returned to his parents after they picked him up.

Tiava Banner was reunited with an 8-month-old child following the Bastille Day massacre, Thursday, July 14, 2016. She took to social media to make a desperate attempt of finding him. “We found the baby safe!”

“If you see this child: contact me”. The post was shared more than 21,000 times.

Banner posted the update with the good news that the baby had been found and reunited with his family.

“Thank you all for your prayers and you share!” “Other members of the family are hospitalized”. A Twitter profile, Nice Find People, has been set up to help bring attention to lost relatives.

As the boy’s family frantically searched for him, another friend, Rebecca Boulanger, posted, “VERY IMPORTANT: in the rush of things with shots being fired some friends of our friends lost their baby boy.an 8-10 month old lovely baby”.

Facebook first launched its safety check feature in 2014, during the terror attack that occurred in Paris, followed by the natural disaster in Nepal and Chile. He announced a three-day period of national mourning. While the entire world mourns the death of the victims, many families are still in search for their loved ones, whom they fear might have been hurt in the Nice attack.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, according to The New York Times.