A truck was driven into a crowd in New Orleans before the driver started firing a weapon, according to reports. Ten people are dead after a car slammed into a crowd in New Orleans’ popular Bourbon Street during New Year’s Day celebrations. At least 30 more are hurt, officials say. Witness accounts recalled a speeding truck crashing into a crowd before the driver got out and started firing a weapon, with police returning fire, CBS reported. The incident occured around 3:15 a.m. local time. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has described it as a “horrific act of violence” and urged “all near the scene to avoid the area”. NOLA Ready, the department responsible for emergency preparedness in New Orleans, said responders were attending a “mass casualty incident involving a vehicle that drove into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street.” It confirmed the casualty toll.
via independent: Ten dead after car plows into crowd at New Orleans New Year’s Day celebration: 30 more injured in chaotic scene
siehe auch: Driver who killed 10 in New Orleans attack was ‘hell-bent on creating carnage’, police say. (…) “This is not a terrorist event,” she says. This contradicts the mayor, who earlier described it as such. There are “improvised explosive devices” found on scene, and they are working to find out if they are “viable” devices. She stresses that the public should stay away from the area, “until we can figure out what is going on”. Driver was ‘hell-bent on creating the carnage and damage he did’ published at 13:50 13:50 The superintendent says the FBI will be taking over the investigation into the incident in New Orleans. The superintendent says, despite over 300 officers being present last night, the perpetrator was “intentional” and went around barricades. She adds the individual was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and damage he did”; Zehn Tote bei Anschlag Täter von New Orleans hatte IS-Flagge im Auto. Der Mann, der mit seinem Fahrzeug in New Orleans mindestens zehn Menschen getötet hat, hatte nach Angaben des FBI eine Flagge der Terrororganisation IS bei sich. Die US-Bundespolizei hat den Anschlag als „Terrorakt“ eingestuft. Der Angreifer starb bei einem Schusswechsel mit der Polizei. Im Zentrum von New Orleans war am frühen Neujahrsmorgen ein Pick-Up-Truck in eine Menschenmenge gefahren. Nach offiziellen Angaben wurden dabei mindestens 10 Menschen getötet und 35 verletzt. Der Polizei zufolge fuhr der Mann mit voller Absicht und sehr schnell durch die Bourbon Street in dem beliebten Ausgehviertel „French Quarter“, wo zahlreiche Menschen den Jahreswechsel feierten. Danach habe der Täter um sich geschossen und dabei auch zwei Polizisten verletzt. Bei dem Schusswechsel wurde der Täter getötet. Nach Angaben der Behörden war es ein 42-jähriger Mann arabischer Herkunft aus Texas. Medien berichten, dass er Militärkleidung getragen habe. Am Tatort wurde demnach auch mindestens ein mutmaßlicher Sprengsatz gefunden; ISIS Flag Carrying Army Vet Accused of Mowing Down 15 in New Orleans. Law enforcement sources have identified the suspect as a 42 year-old Texas resident. The truck driver who plowed into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, according to a news release from the FBI. The suspect—who was shot dead by police after the terror attack that killed 15 people and injured more than 30—was first named by New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune. (The death toll was originally given by New Orleans city officials as 10, but grew on Wednesday afternoon.) Jabbar, an American citizen, is understood to have served for 10 years in the U.S. military and worked as a realtor in Texas.