A man driving a pickup truck that drove 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.
The man who drove his vehicle into the crowd in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing ten people and injuring more than 30, also opened fire on two police officers whom he injured, police on the scene announced. “This man, the perpetrator, shot at our officers from his vehicle when he crashed. Two of them were hit. Their condition is stable,” declared the local police chief.
-American investigators also found a possible homemade explosive device in New Orleans on Wednesday at the scene of the car ramming attack, the FBI federal police said. “We are trying to confirm whether or not it is an active and functioning device,” said Alethea Duncan of the FBI during a press briefing in the large city in the southeast of the United States devastated by this attack in the “French square”, a popular tourist district for the New Year’s party.
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