Students studying overseas in France safe after attack

He has not been heard from since a French-Tunisian man drove a large truck into the Bastille Day crowd, killing at least 84 people and injuring more than 200. In addition, another student, Nick Leslie, is missing.

The program will go on through its planned end date of July 24, university officials said, but the campus has offered to bring home any students who wish to leave. He adds that the U.S. Embassy is helping out and UC Berkeley has mobilized. He was staying in student housing, but didn’t return to the building after the attack. On Friday, the university released a statement saying Leslie is one of 85 students attending the study overseas program in France. Three of them suffered broken bones in the attack, school officials said. The students were traveling as part of a 15-day study overseas program.

Officials said the program has been suspended temporarily as France observes three days of national mourning.

Leslie, a junior in the university’s College of Natural Resources, was not listed among the dead in the attack, but family members have not been able to reach him, a woman who said she was a family friend said in an interview.

“We know he successfully avoided colliding with the truck, but we lost him during the stampede and chaos that follow”.

Sanders said the search for Leslie is intense.

The program director, Ken Singer, has visited the three injured students in the hospital, Holmes said.

The university is checking on other study overseas students as well.

His uncle said a friend saw Leslie running away from the promenade as the truck was passing.

Vice Provost Cathy Koshland and Dean of Students Joseph Defraine Greenwell sent out a message to the community expressing their sympathy to all the affected by this “tragic event” and “senseless violence”. Berkeley sophomore, Tarishi Jain, was among 20 hostages killed by Islamist militants in Dhaka, Bangladesh on July 1.