Families caught in painful limbo awaiting IDs of Nice dead

NICE, France (AP) – The process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in the French city of Nice has dragged into its third day Sunday.

Eighty-four people were killed in the Thursday night attack on the Promenades des Anglais, as crowds made their way home from a waterfront fireworks display. But the Paris prosecutor’s office says just 35 bodies had been identified definitively so far.

The delay is adding to the suffering of survivors. One family has spent days canvasing hospitals and offices for news of a 4-year-old boy whose mother was killed.

And University of California, Berkeley students have plastered flyers around the city asking for any information on the whereabouts of three classmates at a technology entrepreneur education program.

Several imams have stepped into the official breach, posting themselves outside the Pasteur Hospital to help family members visiting the injured or looking for confirmation of their worst fears from the hospital morgue.