US News: On Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a truck traveling at a fast speed collided with a group of revelers ringing in the new year. About ten persons lost their lives in the tragedy, while more than thirty were hurt.
US News: On Wednesday, a truck traveling at a high speed collided with a group of people celebrating the new year on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, resulting in a sad tragedy.Up to ten persons lost their lives in the tragedy, while more than thirty were hurt. According to CBS News, which cited witnesses, the motorist stepped out after colliding with individuals and began shooting, and police retaliated.
"A mass casualty catastrophe occurred on Canal and Bourbon Street. In a social media post on X, NOLA Ready, a division of New Orleans Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, advised people to leave the region.
The incident happened at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville streets on Wednesday at approximately 3:15 a.m., according to WGNO-TV. Five nearby hospitals received the injured in a hurry.
The event took place at the city's Caesars Superdome only hours before the AllState Bowl, a college football quarterfinal, was about to begin. The event is anticipated to draw thousands of people. According to preliminary accounts, a car may have crashed into a crowd of people. "There are reported fatalities, but injuries are unknown," a representative for the New Orleans Police Department told CBS News.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said on social media platform X that a horrifying act of violence occurred on Bourbon Street earlier this morning. A white truck was seen smashing through a roadblock "at a high rate of speed" and shattering sounds were heard coming from down the street, according to an eyewitness account on CBS News.
This incident comes after shootings and collisions between cars and crowds at previous New Orleans parades. Two individuals were killed and ten others were wounded in two different gunshots that occurred along a parade route in New Orleans last November. Thousands of people attended these festivities.
In February 2017, there was another incident where a drunken pickup truck driver struck a group of people who were watching the main Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans. As many as 20 people were injured in the incident.
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