London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced he will be “reviewing our own safety measures” following the attack in Nice.
He pledged he would do “everything possible to keep Londoners safe”.
He said the capital stands “united” with France and insisted the “poisonous and twisted” terrorists would be defeated, reports Sky News.
Speaking on a visit to Gatwick Airport, Khan said: “I will reassure all Londoners that today we will be reviewing our own safety measures in light of this attack and that I and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner will do everything possible to keep Londoners safe.
“The Met Police service and the security service do an amazing job every day keeping us safe.
“They regularly review security measures, but clearly as the terrorists evolve the way they try and hurt us – we have got to evolve how we keep us safe.”
Meanwhile, at least 10 children are among the dead in the Riviera city following a “cowardly and barbaric” atrocity believed to have been carried out by 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who left at least one British national among the injured. Officials fear the death toll will rise.
As hundreds remained in hospital – including 18 fighting for their lives in intensive care – anti-terrorist judges opened an investigation into “mass murder” and investigators searched the home of the driver in the Abattoirs area of Nice.
Sources close to the inquiry said the perpetrator was a local 31-year-old career criminal who was born in Tunisia before moving to France.
His 19 tonne lorry had zigzagged through crowds massing on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday night, killing anyone he could.
After being stopped by armed police, who fired bullets into the lorry’s windscreen, the so far unnamed man exchanged fire with officers using a 7.65 pistol, before being shot dead.
“He was known to the police for violence, and using weapons, but had no direct links with terrorism,” said an investigating source. “His identity car was found in the lorry. He had French and Tunisian nationality.”
A search of the vehicle uncovered a pistol, a larger gun, and a number of fake weapons and grenades.
