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• New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 being investigated as ‘act of terrorism’
• Suspect in deadly New Orleans vehicle attack was 13-year US army veteran

There are now reports of federal bomb squads detonating improvised explosive devices in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

Information and witness reports are now coming in thick and fast, as routinely happens as the account of an incident unfolds.

He was hell-bent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did. It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he could,” said the city police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick.