New Orleans live updates: 10 killed, 35 injured after vehicle rams into crowd in New Orleans on New Year’s Day

The people who were injured in the incident have been transported to five hospitals in the city. These hospitals are University Medical Center, Touro Hospital, East Jefferson General Hospital, Ochsner Medical Center Jefferson Campus, and Ochsner Baptist Campus, the Guardian reported.

Alethea Duncan, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said that the officials were investigating the discovery of at least one suspected improvised explosive device at the scene.

Special FBI agent Althea Duncan contradicted the New Orleans Mayor while speaking to the media by saying that the incident on Bourbon street ‘is not a terrorist event’.

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said that it is unclear how many victims are tourists and how many are locals,. However, they believe that the majority are local to New Orleans.

The driver fired on police officers from his vehicle, she said. According to her, two officers have been shot but their condition is stable.

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said that despite over 300 officers being present last night, the perpetrator was “intentional” and went around barricades.

She added that the individual was “hell-bent on creating the carnage and damage he did”.

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the media that a man drove a pick up truck “down Bourbon Street at a very fast pace”.

Kirkpatrick said that the man displayed “very intentional behaviour” and he was “trying to run over as many people as he possibly could”.

The superintendent clarified that numbers could change, but confirmed 10 people have been killed and at least 35 others injured.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the city was impacted today by a “terrorist attack”.

The exact details of the incident are under investigation, she said, adding that she has been in touch with the White House and Louisiana’s governor, BBC reported.

The Mayor has asked “for prayers for those who have lost their lives”, and added that the public should avoid the eight blocks around Bourbon Street, where the incident occurred.

New Orleans’ emergency preparedness department has told people to avoid the area where the incident occurred.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says in a post on X that he is “praying for all the victims and first responders on scene”.

“A horrific act of violence took place on Bourbon Street earlier this morning,” Landry writes. Please join Sharon and I in praying for all the victims and first responders on scene. I urge all near the scene to avoid the area,” he wrote on X.

10 people were killed and 30 others were injured after a car crashed into a group of people on New Year’s Day, multiple reports said.