Several deaths and injuries were reported in New Orleans where a vehicle hit the crowd, according to authorities. The toll rose to 10 dead and 30 injured. According to police, the driver tried to run over “as many people” as possible.
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.
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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. There are 30 injuries and ten fatalities,” the city authority said. in charge of emergencies, in a press release.
Driver ‘fiercely determined to cause carnage’
The man driving a pickup tried to “run over as many people as he could,” police in the American city said.
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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.
A historic and festive district
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.
