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| Ten people killed in New Orleans as vehicle ploughs into crowd | Ten people killed in New Orleans as vehicle ploughs into crowd |
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| Ten people have been killed and 30 others injured after a vehicle drove into a large crowd in New Orleans, city emergency officials have said. | |
| Nola Ready, the emergency preparedness department, said that the incident happened around 03:15 local time (08:15 GMT) on Bourbon Street. Reports from witnesses, which police have not confirmer, said that the driver then began firing a weapon. | |
| A CBS reporter saw multiple people with injuries on the ground at the intersection of Bourbon and Canal streets. | |
| A man who was in a bar during the incident told the BBC that after police let him leave he "walked past dead and injured bodies all over the street". | |
| The BBC has verified video from the scene that shows a person lying on the ground as others gather round, before what appears to be gunshots are heard, causing the crowd to scatter. | The BBC has verified video from the scene that shows a person lying on the ground as others gather round, before what appears to be gunshots are heard, causing the crowd to scatter. |
| Another graphic video shows two injured people lying in a street. | Another graphic video shows two injured people lying in a street. |
| Witnesses told CBS that a vehicle ran into a crowd, and then the driver began firing a weapon, prompting police to return fire. Police have not confirmed this report. | |
| Whit Davis, from Shreveport, Louisiana, told the BBC that he had been on and around Bourbon Street since the beginning of the evening. He was inside a bar when the incident occurred, and said he did not hear shooting or crashes because the music was so loud. | |
| "Then people started running and getting under tables like it was an active shooter drill. Then the police held us in the bar for a while and when we were finally allowed to leave we were walking past dead and injured bodies all over the street," he said. | |
| "Everyone was just completely in shock," he added. "I visit New Orleans frequently and have never seen anything close to this bad." | |
| Jim and Nicole Mowrer, who were visiting New Orleans from Iowa, told CBS that they were in the French Quarter when they heard crashing noises coming from down the street. | |
| They said they saw a white truck slam through a barricade "at a high rate of speed", then heard gunshots after the crashing noises. | |
| "We stayed in the alcove until the gunfire stopped, came out into the street, and came across a lot of - several people who had been hit, [we] wanted to see what we could do to help," Nicole said. | |
| They tried to help people they found wounded, but realised the victims had died. They said the truck hit people only about a block away from where they were walking. | |
| The couple said the victims they saw had injuries from the truck impact, and they did not see any apparent gunshot wounds. They said they left the area once emergency responders started arriving. | |
| Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says in a post on X that he was "praying for all the victims and first responders on scene". | |
| "A horrific act of violence took place on Bourbon Street earlier this morning," Landry wrote. | |
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