Jul 16, 2016- Four people believed to be linked to the man who killed 84 people in Nice are in police custody, French media have reported.
One of the men was arrested Friday and the three others were held on Saturday morning, AFP news agency reported.
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel drove a lorry through crowds marking Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais on Thursday before he was shot dead by police.
French President Francois Hollande will chair crisis talks later.
Mr Hollande, who says the attack was a terrorist act, has already extended a state of emergency by three months.
Prosecutors said Tunisian Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had driven the lorry 2km (1.2 miles) along the promenade targeting people.
Ten of the dead were children. Some 202 people were injured; 52 are critical, of whom 25 are on life support.
At the meeting with the security chiefs, Mr Hollande is expected to review all options in response to the attack.
A state of emergency was in place across France since November's Paris attacks carried out by militants from the so-called Islamic State group, in which 130 people died. It had been due to end on 26 July.
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