Yerevan/Mediamax/.  There are Armenians among the brutal terrorist attacks in Nice yesterday.

Nice resident Vahik Sahakyan told Mediamax that currently there is information about 2 Armenian victims.

“One Armenian young man is known to be killed, he had been right at the scene at that time. I am informed that he tried to cover his family members with his body when the terrorist started shooting at people. The other possible victim is a woman called Arevik. She was working at my house. My acquaintances are telling me that she also was at the firework scene”, Vahik Sahakyan told Mediamax.

Armenian Foreign Ministry informs that an Armenian was killed during Nice terrorist attack. Armenian Consulate in Marcel is in contact with the victim’s relatives.

Vahik Sahakyan has been living in Nice for 9 years. About a month ago he opened a restaurant in Commander Raffali Street. It is 50-70 meters away from the scene of terrorist attack in Nice.

“What happened yesterday was awful. I have never seen anything like that before. We had a lot of customers at the restaurant as we were celebrating French national holiday. Some of them wanted to go see the firework and come back for coffee. The street that has many small restaurants is near the scene. 15 minutes after customers had gone to see the firework, hundreds of people started running down that narrow street. People were running over tables, chairs. People were running as fast as they could and as far as they could”, Vahik Sahakyan said.

He remained in the restaurant at that point and gave shelter to a number of people.

“People were running down the street for a couple of minutes shouting that shooting is going on. I haven’t heard gunfire, we saw a video online after and understood what had happened. Some of the customers fainted, one of them had to be hospitalized”, Armenian witness said.