Nick Leslie, a UC Berkeley student studying abroad, is missing after the truck attack in Nice, France, according to news reports.
Leslie, who grew up in Del Mar but was originally from Italy, was along the promenade when a French-Tunisian citizen drove a truck through crowds of people who had gathered to watch fireworks, killing 84.
“His uncle Fabio Bottini is checking hospitals in Nice to try to locate him and is in contact with his mother back in California,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Daily Beast is reporting, however, that a friend of Leslie’s said he saw the 20-year-old bolting off through the streets of Old Nice. However, Leslie’s aunt, Bottini’s wife, said the student never returned to his student housing on Thursday night.
Leslie is a junior in the College of Natural Resources, according to UC Berkeley. He is one of 85 students on a 15-day study abroad program called Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Europe, part of the international European Innovation Academy. The program has been suspended temporarily for France’s three days of mourning.