Driver ‘hell-bent on carnage’ kills 10, injures 30 on New Year’s Day in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans’ famed French Quarter early on New Year’s Day, ramming a pickup truck into a crowd and killing 10 people before being shot to death by police, authorities said.

More than 30 people were injured in the attack, which the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism.

The driver was killed in a firefight with police following the attack around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday along Bourbon Street near Canal Street in an area teeming with New Year’s revelers, the FBI said.

Security personnel gather at the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on

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