Vehicle plows into crowd in tourist area of New Orleans. Balance: aAt least 10 people were killed and 30 injured, including two police officers who were shot.
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“We are responding to a mass casualty accident involving a vehicle that drove into a crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street,” the city's emergency authority said. “The driver tried to run over as many people as possible,” police added.
“At high speed”
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.
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.
Police said the driver tried to “run over as many people as he could.” The driver “was fiercely determined to cause carnage,” police official Anne Kirkpatrick told the press.
