Nice // An eight-month-old baby boy lost in the chaos after a truck rammed into a crowd in Nice was tracked down through Facebook on Friday.
Tiava Banner – who said she was not the mother of the baby – sent out an appeal on Facebook for any information on the whereabouts of a child in a blue stroller who was lost as hundreds fled in panic from the rampaging truck.
At least 84 people were killed in the attack.
The post was shared thousands of times until it was updated with: “Found! Thank you Facebook and all those who helped us.”
A member of the child’s family said: “A young woman found him and took him home with her. She then went online and found the photo of the baby on Facebook.”
The woman then contacted the baby’s parents.
Dozens of other people appealed through social media to find missing loved ones.
“We are worried to death”, “We haven’t heard from him since he went to see the fireworks”, were some of the messages.
Many of the missing were children and teenagers.
Authorities said that two children were among the dead and around 50 children were in hospital.
* Agence France-Presse