Authorities are investigating an attack in New Orleans where a truck with an ISIS flag was driven into a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing 15 people and injuring dozens. FBI is looking into potential military links and discovered IEDs in the French Quarter. A search in Houston related to the attack has concluded without arrests.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the 'TODAY' show that authorities are still looking into 'people of interest' related to yesterday's attack in New Orleans , when a man drove a truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and Army veteran. A potential improvised explosive device was in the truck he was driving, and other potential IEDs were discovered in the French Quarter, the FBI said.
looking into a possible military link between Jabbar and the person who died when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News that authorities believe multiple people were involved and that investigators suspected that explosive devices associated with the New Orleans attack were made in an Airbnb rented by those involved.A law enforcement search of a location in northern Houston, which started yesterday in connection with the New Orleans New Year’s Day attack, concluded this morning, FBI Houston said. “At approximately 7:50 a.m., FBI Houston and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office concluded a court-authorized search and cleared the 12000 block of Crescent Peak Drive,” FBI Houston said in a statement. Officials said there is no threat to residents in the area. Authorities did not provide details on why that area was searched, but earlier said the activity was'related' to the New Orleans attack. The suspect driver of the van that plowed through the crowd on Bourbon Street yesterday was from Texas. The search of the area in Crescent Peak Drive resulted in no arrests, and saw the FBI deploy its SWAT team, crisis negotiators, special agent bomb technicians, and a group of counterterrorism investigators.The head of the cleanup crew tasked with the difficult job of clearing Bourbon Street following yesterday's attack has described the scene where 15 people were killed and dozens of others injured as'just horrific
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