“I’m planning to stay with him until we can both fly home together.”

Sydneysiders Bridget de Jong and her boyfriend Marcus Anderson went to the south of France with one plan: to eat a lot of cheese.

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"We were in France for one week so did 'the seven days of Cheesemas' trying a new one every day, which was fun," de Jong, 22, told BuzzFeed News.

But on Thursday night the pair were separated when Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck through crowds gathered to watch Bastille Day celebrations on Nice's waterfront, killing 84 people.

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De Jong walked back with a group of friends to the promenade where her boyfriend had been.

"As we got further up we started to see bodies and people were going the other direction and telling us not to go up there and something had happened," she said.

"We got as far up as we felt comfortable and then didn't really know what to do ... We saw them set up a makeshift hospital in a nightclub and people get wheeled in and then the army moved us along."

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