Ten people are dead after a car slammed into a crowd in New Orleans’ popular Bourbon Street during New Year’s Day celebrations.
At least 30 more are hurt, officials say. Witness accounts recalled a speeding truck crashing into a crowd before the driver got out and started firing a weapon, with police returning fire, CBS reported.
NOLA Ready, the department responsible for emergency preparedness in New Orleans, said responders were attending a “mass casualty incident involving a vehicle that drove into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street.” It confirmed the casualty toll.
Footage circulating online, which appears to show the aftermath of the incident, shows multiple lying on the floor as people run from the area.
NOLA Ready asked people to stay away from the area in a post on X. “There has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street. Get yourself away from the area,” it wrote.
One person who says they witnessed the incident described it on social media as the “most horrific thing I’ve ever seen.”
They said they saw a “truck crashing through the barricades” before seeing it “run into a crowd” and “people flying as it hit them.”
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