At least 10 people are feared dead and 30 suffered injuries after a car ploughed into a crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. Some reports said that the driver of the car, believed to be a pickup truck, also fired at the crowd.
Officials said a crowd was celebrating when the pickup truck drove into it at high speed at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Street in a part of the city known as the French Quarter. Witnesses also reported seeing police firing at the driver after the attack.
NOLAREADY: There has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street. Get yourself away from the area. Visit https://t.co/AyuRn38guC for details.
— NOLA Ready (@nolaready) January 1, 2025
“The 8th District is currently working a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle that drove into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street. There are 30 injured patients that have been transported by NOEMS and 10 fatalities. Â Public safety partners are responding on scene,” New Orleans’ emergency preparedness campaign NOLA Ready said on its website.
The incident comes days after five people were killed in a similar car-ramming attack in Germany. More than 200 people were also injured in the December 20 attack in the eastern city of Magdeburg, which was allegedly carried out by a man of Saudi origin. The attacker has been arrested and police are investigating whether he is mentally ill.
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