UPDATE: The number murdered has now reached 15.
Original Post: Yet another mass murder with a vehicle. It just makes it clear that terrorists can murder people in many different ways. Besides using the truck, the murderer reportedly made multiple IEDs.
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It is very reminiscent of the October 31, 2017, terrorist attack in New York City. Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov also drove a rented pickup truck with an ISIS flag into a group of people — cyclists and runners on a bike lane and pedestrian walkway in Lower Manhattan. He murdered eight people and injured 11 others.
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New Year’s celebrations turned to tragedy in New Orleans after a driver rammed a truck into the crowd at the city’s iconic Bourbon Street, killing at least ten and injuring 35 others.
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The killer has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar. He was killed in a firefight that injured two police officers.
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Jabbar grew up in Texas and is believed to have served in the military for ten years . . .
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Jabbar drove an EV pickup truck with a black Islamic caliphate flag on the back through the barricades on the corner of Bourbon and Canal street. . . .
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A potential IED was in the truck, and other potential IEDs were located in the French Quarter, the FBI said.
