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AUTHOR:M.J. GDNUS
Ten people were killed and 30 injured after a vehicle plowed into a crowd in New Orleans, according to the city's official disaster preparedness agency NOLA Ready, CNN reported.
It all happened on Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. local time, local TV station WGNO reported.
Bourbon Street is located in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Thousands of people attended New Year's Eve celebrations along the street last night.
Emergency services were quickly on the scene.
Police have not yet released a motive for the attack, or whether it was terrorism.
CBS News reports, citing witnesses, that it was a truck, not a car, and that the driver drove the vehicle at high speed into the crowd on Bourbon Street, then got out and started shooting.
Police returned fire.
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell released the first information about the attack.
We know that the city was affected by a terrorist attack, she said, emphasizing that the incident is still under investigation, CNN reports.
New Orleans police said that investigators are confident that the person who drove his vehicle into the crowd on Bourbon Street did not do it by accident.
