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Deadly New Orleans ramming was terror attack, mayor says; FBI probing suspected explosive device
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New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is calling the New Year’s Day mass casualty incident in which 10 people were killed and 30 injured, a “terrorist attack.”
The FBI is investigating what occurred when a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans’ famed Canal and Bourbon Street in the first hours of New Year’s Day.
Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, says officials are investigating the discovery of at least one suspected improvised explosive device at the scene.
Police say the man who drove a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers tried to “run over as many people as he possibly could.”
The driver “was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick tells journalists.
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