Multiple deaths after New Year ‘terror attack’ in New Orleans
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At least 15 people are dead and dozens injured after a man, allegedly 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an American-born citizen and military veteran who grew up in Texas, drove a pick-up truck into New Year’s revellers in the American city New Orleans. The incident is being treated, by law enforcement, as an act of terrorism.
“After hitting the crowd, he exited the vehicle and fired upon local law enforcement. Law enforcement returned fire and the subject was pronounced deceased at the scene,” the FBI said in a statement.
“Two law enforcement officers were injured and transported to a local hospital.”
An ISIS flag was found in the vehicle, a pick-up truck, which law enforcement believes Jabbar rented. According to The Associated Press, police also found guns and pipe bombs inside the pick-up truck, hidden within coolers.
Those explosives had been wired for remote detonation, and a corresponding remote control was also found in the vehicle.
Meanwhile other explosives were found in the city’s French Quarter. Surveillance footage reportedly shows three men, and a woman, placing “one of multiple improvised explosive devices”.
In that vein, law enforcement believes the suspect may not have acted alone.
“We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible,” said FBI assistant special agent in charge of the investigation, Alethea Duncan, at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, US time.
“We are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates.”
The pick-up truck in question, a Ford electric vehicle, had been rented via the app Turo. Its owner, another 42-year-old man, had listed it for rent and is now speaking to police.
“We are heartbroken to learn that one of our hosts’ vehicles was involved in this awful incident,” Turo’s vice president of communications, Steve Webb, said in a statement.
“We are actively partnering with the FBI. We are not currently aware of anything in this guest’s background that would have identified him as a trust and safety threat to us at the time of the reservation.”
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