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, January 1.
“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”declared the city authority in charge of emergencies, in a press release.
The man driving the pickup that drove into the crowd tried “to crush as many people as he could”indicated the police of the American city.
The driver “was fiercely determined to cause carnage”a police official, Anne Kirkpatrick, told the press.
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 district known as « French Quarter » (French Quarter).
CBS News cites witnesses as saying a truck drove into a crowd at “high speed” before its driver jumped out and started firing a gun, prompting a police response.
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