NICE, France  — French President Francois Hollande says the truck attack was done "to satisfy the cruelty of an individual, and maybe a group."

Speaking after visiting the hospital where victims were treated, he also said that France was "facing a struggle which will be long."

Meanwhile, after a visit to a hospital in Nice, Francois Hollande said that some 50 people were between life and death following a gruesome truck attack that has already killed 84 people.

Hollande, looking somber and flanked by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, said that "it's to hit France that this individual committed this terrorist act."