A US Army veteran rammed into a crowd of New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people before being shot dead by police. The FBI is investigating the attack as a terrorist act.
A US army veteran driving a pick-up truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group killed at least 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into New Year’s Eve revellers in New Orleans before being shot dead by police. The FBI said it is investigating the attack early on Wednesday in the city’s French Quarter as a terrorist act and does not believe the driver acted alone.
Investigators found multiple improvised explosive devices, including two pipe bombs that were concealed within coolers and wired for remote detonation, according to a Louisiana State Police intelligence bulletin obtained by the Associated Press. The bulletin, relying on information gathered soon after the attack, also said surveillance footage showed three men and a woman placing one of the devices.Pedestrians fled to safety inside nightclubs and restaurants. One man watched in horror as authorities placed a tarpaulin over his friend’s body after she was hit and thrown nine metres. “This is not just an act of terrorism. This is evil,” New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said. The driver “defeated” safety measures in place to protect pedestrians, she said, and was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did”. The FBI identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen and Army veteran from Texas, and said it is working to determine Jabbar’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organisations. Emergency services at the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd in New Orleans (Gerald Herbert/AP) “We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible,” Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said at a news conference. Jabbar drove a rented pick-up truck on to a pavement, going around a police car that was positioned to block vehicular traffic, authorities said
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