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A man drove a pickup into a crowd on Tuesday night, killing ten people and injuring around thirty others in the Old French Quarter of New Orleans, authorities announced during a a press briefing broadcast on television.
LaToya Cantrell, the city's mayor, declared that it was a “terrorist attack” while New Orleans police chief Anne Kirkpatrick ruled out the hypothesis of a driver in state. of intoxication.
According to the latter, the investigation was entrusted to the FBI, of which a representative present at the press briefing did not immediately confirm the terrorist trail.
The attack occurred on Bourbon Street, a historic thoroughfare in New Orleans, around 3:15 a.m. (9:15 a.m. GMT), Anne Kirkpatrick told reporters.
“This man wanted to crush as many people as possible,” she said.
The man then opened fire on police officers, injuring two.
“A horrible act occurred on Bourbon Street this morning,” Louisiana State Governor Jeff Landry wrote on X.
(Nilutpal Timsina in Bangalore and David Shepardson in Washington; written by Nicolas Delame)
