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2025 started off with a horrific terror attack, in New Orleans – likely from Isis, as a flag was seen on the perpetrators truck. At least 10 people were killed and 30 more were injured, according to multiple reports.
New Orleans police say that a terrorist drove the truck at high speed into crowds around 3:15 a.m. before crashing and opening fire, shooting two police officers. Investigators said they later found what appeared to be improvised explosive devices in the truck and were trying to determine whether the devices were viable.
The driver of the pickup truck is dead after getting into a shootout with police after he ran over pedestrians and crashed. The incident is being investigated as a suspected act of terrorism, the officials said.
The carnage was devastating. Photos and videos of the carnage are circulating on social media. Local police say that it appeared that most of those who were dead or injured were “locals versus tourists.”
In the photos and videos, it appear that a black Isis flag was on the back of the truck.
Bodies laying on the street
Shots Fired, People Fleeing
EMS running towards the scene
EMS Providing CPR
Photos:
Photo of truck, possible ISIS flag
The CEO of the Sugar Bowl Committee that runs college football’s Sugar Bowl, one of New Orleans’s marquee sporting events that is set to take place tonight, issued a statement saying the committee was “devastated by the terrible events from early this morning.
More than 300 officers were on duty at the time of the incident, police said.
The city of New Orleans was upgrading bollards along a section of Bourbon Street in the area where the attack occurred
President Joe Biden offered “full federal support” to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell on a phone call Wednesday morning, the White House said in a statement.
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