UC Berkeley officials confirmed a second UC student studying abroad has died this summer when the body of Nick Leslie, 20, was found three days after a terror-linked truck rampage in Nice, France, according to multiple news reports.
Leslie, 20, a junior attending a summer entrepreneurship and innovation class in Europe, was last seen in the area of the fireworks display in Nice last Thursday, and was still unaccounted for as of early Sunday.
“Campus study abroad, risk services office and student affairs staff are working with fellow students in France, the program director on the ground, local officials, U.S. consular officials and the family to locate him,” the university said in a news release last week.
Leslie, who lives in Del Mar, Calif., near San Diego, is originally from Milan, Italy. He is a student in UC’s College of Natural Resources.
A relative told the Wall Street Journal that Leslie was seen in the “zone of the accident,” and that a friend saw him running away from the promenade as the terrorist’s truck drove by. “Maybe he is alive, but I don’t know, maybe he is confused,” Fabeo Bottini, Leslie’s uncle told a reporter.
Leslie’s name had not previously appeared on any hospital lists among the deceased, according to reports.
Three students from UC Berkeley also studying in Nice, were also injured, treated and released after the truck attack.
