BREAKING: Video surfaces detailing police gunfight with Nice attacker

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Police officers and soldiers block the access to the scene of an attack after a truck drove on to the sidewalk and plowed through a crowd of revelers who'd gathered to watch the fireworks in the French resort city of Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people were killed, including children, and 18 were in critical condition, (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

NBC News has released the new video, courtesy Nader El Shafei, that shows the police shooting and killing the assailant, described as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a French Tunisian man obsessed with ISIS.

The scene opens with a burst of gunfire: The white truck is motionless, two cops seen firing in the frame.

Chilling new video emerged Friday of the moment French police stopped a truck driver’s murderous path down the promenade in Nice. Dozens of people were killed in Thursday night’s attack.

Police shot the driver — later identified as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel — dead.

Video emerged showing what appears to be the immediate aftermath, with the large white truck stopped in the street as pops of gunfire are heard. Two police officers are seen in the initial frame, guns raised.

More officers race toward the vehicle, surrounding the cab and shining their flashlights inside.

Screams and shouts are heard as yet more police swarm from around the back of the truck.

The camera pans to the left to show the the deadly trail of destruction — debris and what appear to be bodies strewn in the street, people running through the frame.

With the vehicle finally still authorities take up positions, ordering onlookers back with shouts as they set up a perimeter.

Watch the story unfold here.

Video and story courtesy: NBC news.

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