New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
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You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday, the 2nd of January. We have the latest on the suspected terror attack in New Orleans, as the US authorities say they do not believe the man who rammed his truck into New Year revelers acted alone. One person dies after a Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump Tower in Las Vegas. And a new way of studying DNA in human remains that could change our understanding of our history. Also in the podcast... The Shipping Forecast celebrates 100 years on air.
But we start in New Orleans, which was hit by a suspected terror attack just after 3am into the new year. There have been a number of developments since the coverage in our earlier podcast. The coroner of the city now says at least 15 people were killed when a pickup truck ploughed into revelers in Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of the city. After crashing the vehicle, the driver opened fire before being shot dead by police. At a news conference, FBI Special Agent Alethea Duncan said investigators didn't believe he was acting alone.
The subject has been identified as 42-year-old Samsud Dim Jabbar, a US-born citizen from Texas. He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to be unrented, and we are working to confirm how the subject came in possession of this vehicle. An ISIS flag was located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations. We are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism. We're aggressively running down all the leads to identify the possible subject's associates. We're working to ensure that there is no further threat. We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible.
This man had been in a nearby hotel when the attack took place. He was among those who tried to help the injured.
Being a Marine Corps vet, it felt like, you know, back in Iraq again. You know, just jumping right in, just seeing the people and everything laying down, not knowing exactly what to do. So at that moment, I just had to do what I needed to do, just go right back into my training and try to see people that I can actually help and pretty much trying to triage. There was another gentleman that was there with me. He was a training medic as well. So between the two of us, we tried to help anybody we could.
In a post on his social media site, the US President-elect Donald Trump linked the attack to immigration, although that was before the suspect was named as a US Army veteran and US citizen born and raised in Texas. Police said that more than 300 officers had been on duty in New Orleans at the time of the incident. The city was due to host the Sugar Bowl, a classic American college football game, although it has now been postponed. Our North America correspondent Rowan Bridge has this assessment.
I think there were some key things that came out of that news conference that bear repeating. It's clear that the authorities now do not think that this was a single person behind this attack. And they are trying to track down all the known associates of Shamsuddin Jabbar and anybody who's had contact with him over the last 72 hours. Also worth noting that they said that there are still victims of this attack on the street in Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, which means that I think it's certainly possible that that death toll of 10 that have been confirmed so far may go up. We also know that some of those still in hospital are still in a critical condition.
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Oliver Conway 7 min
Sebastian Usher 4 min
Paddy O'Connell 3 min
Reagan Morris 2 min
Archana Shukla 2 min
David Sillitoe 2 min
Anna Holligan 2 min
Dr Megan Argo 1 min
Rowan Bridge 1 min
Pallab Ghosh 1 min
Josh Hartnett 1 min
Rustapuka 1 min
Damian Kevitt 1 min
FBI Special Agent Alethea Duncan 1 min
Guy De Launay 1 min
Siobhan Nzinga 1 min
Mimi Holt 1 min
Karen Bass
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Arpita Mukherjee
Landon Harris
Peter Bowes
Sean Lay
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Nicola Coughlan
Andrew Peach