(Washington) At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured when a vehicle drove into a crowd in a tourist area of New Orleans, authorities in the American city announced Wednesday.
Posted at 7:31 a.m.
“We are responding to a mass casualty accident involving a vehicle that drove into a crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street. There are 30 injured and ten dead,” the city’s emergency authority said in a statement.
Emergency services did not specify the time of the incident, but the area was expected to be crowded with people celebrating New Year’s Eve in the historic and festive area known as the French Quarter.
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CBS News cites witnesses who say a truck drove into the crowd at “high speed” before its driver jumped out and began firing a gun, prompting a police response.
The man behind the wheel of a pickup truck that plowed into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s Eve in New Orleans on Wednesday tried to “run over as many people as he could,” New Orleans police said. the American city.
The driver “was fiercely determined to cause carnage,” police official Anne Kirkpatrick told the press. At least ten people were killed, according to emergency services.
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