At least 10 individuals are feared lifeless and 30 suffered accidents after a automobile ploughed right into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Some reviews mentioned that the driving force of the automobile, believed to be a pickup truck, additionally fired on the crowd.
Officials mentioned a crowd was celebrating when the pickup truck drove into it at excessive velocity on the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Street in part of the town referred to as the French Quarter. Witnesses additionally reported seeing police firing on the driver after the assault.
NOLAREADY: There has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street. Get your self away from the world. Visit for particulars.
— NOLA Ready (@nolaready) January 1, 2025
“The eighth District is presently working a mass casualty incident involving a automobile that drove into a big crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street. There are 30 injured sufferers which were transported by NOEMS and 10 fatalities. Public security companions are responding on scene,” New Orleans’ emergency preparedness marketing campaign NOLA Ready mentioned on its web site.
The incident comes days after 5 individuals have been killed in an identical car-ramming assault in Germany. More than 200 individuals have been additionally injured within the December 20 assault within the japanese metropolis of Magdeburg, which was allegedly carried out by a person of Saudi origin. The attacker has been arrested and police are investigating whether or not he’s mentally in poor health.