AKIPRESS.COM - Islamic State terror chiefs have claimed responsibility for the Nice terror attack, the Mirror reported. 

ISIS affiliated Amaq news agency posted a statement this morning saying they are to blame for the atrocity that left 84 dead.

Police found documents belonging to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old French man of Tunisian descent, in the truck which ploughed through crowds in Nice.

Anti-terror officers then raided his home and arrested his ex-wife is in connection with the terror attack.

The statement reads: "Executor of the deadly operation in Nice, France was a soldier of the Islamic State."