2 more arrests in Nice truck attack; 49 dead still not ID'd

French authorities investigating the truck attack that killed 84 people at a Bastille Day celebration in Nice detained two more people today and released the dead attacker's estranged wife as they tried to determine whether he had been an Islamic extremist or just a very angry man.
More than 200 people were also wounded in the carnage wrought by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel on the seafront of this southern Mediterranean city.
About 85 people remained hospitalized today. Of those, 18, including a child, were still in life-threatening condition, Health Minister Marisol Touraine told reporters on a visit to the city.
The Paris prosecutor's office said only 35 bodies have been definitively identified so far. Touraine also said one of the people hospitalized still has not been identified.

A man and a woman were detained this morning in Nice, according to an official with the Paris prosecutor's office, which oversees national terrorism investigations.
The two are suspected of helping Bouhlel obtain a pistol that was found in the truck, according to a French security official not authorized to be publicly named speaking about an ongoing investigation.

Shortly afterward, Bouhlel's estranged wife, who was arrested Friday, was released from custody, according to an official in the Paris prosecutor's office. She is the mother of Bouhlel's three children and was in the process of divorcing him.
The woman's lawyer, Jean-Yves Garino, told BFM-TV that Bouhlel physically abused her and the rest of the family, and she eventually threw him out of the house.

"It was hard, but she did it," Garino said, adding, "she was no longer in contact with him."
In total, six people now remain in custody related to the truck attack, but officials have provided no details about their identities.
Bouhlel sent one of those people text messages just before the attack, the French security official said. The official would not comment on the content of the text messages or confirm reports that they included a request for more weapons.
Investigators are hunting for possible accomplices of Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian who had lived in Nice for years. He was killed by police after ramming his truck through crowds after a holiday fireworks display Thursday night.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it's unclear whether Bouhlel had concrete links to the group. IS said he was following their call to target citizens of countries fighting the extremists. The security official said Bouhlel sold his car just before the attack, which appeared premeditated.