Identity and details of New Orleans attacker revealed by FBI

Описание: The suspect in the deadly New Orleans terror attack has been identified.

At least ten people died and 35 more were injured the attack in the US city of New Orleans, as a man drove a car into a New Year's crowd before opening fire.

He was identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas.

Jabbar was in a rented Ford pickup truck and had an ISIS flag in the vehicle, the FBI said.

Two police officers were among those who were shot in the attack, which took place near the popular Bourbon Street, in the French Quarter of the Louisiana city, at around 3.15am local time (9.15am UK time).

New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the attack was "terror" in a press conference, and the FBI later said they were investigating the attack as a terrorist incident.

A senior police officer said the attack was "very intentional" and the perpetrator was "hell-bent" on creating "carnage". Some 300 police officers were at the scene during the attack.

Two improvised explosive devices were found at the scene, the FBI agent told reporters, although it is unclear if they are viable yet.

The attacker died after shooting at police, the FBI later confirmed.

A handgun and an AR-style rifle were recovered from the scene, an official told the AP news agency.

Eyewitnesses who were on Bourbon Street at the time of the attack told of their hair-raising near miss.

NPR reporter Drew Hawkins, who spoke to them, told LBC's Shelagh Fogarty: “The way they described it is they were walking down Bourbon Street, it was just after 3 in the morning, and they heard what sounded like crashing sounds behind them.

"They turn around and a white pickup truck speeding down the roads around the barricades and they actually managed to jump out of the way into an alcove - just in time for the truck to zoom by and miss them."

The city's emergency preparedness body said earlier that staff were "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 [emergency services] and 10 fatalities.

"Public safety partners are responding on scene."

Officials also warned people to stay away from the area where the incident took place.

"There has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street," officials said. "Get yourself away from the area.

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