A pickup truck rammed into a crowd celebrating New Year's Eve on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, leaving 10 dead and 30 injured. The suspect, who was allegedly aiming to kill as many people as possible, has not been identified. Witnesses reported scenes of chaos and devastation, with bodies strewn across the sidewalks and inside the truck.
Mary Kekatos and Chris Looft NEW ORLEANS , La. --attack early Wednesday morning on Bourbon Street in New Orleans that left 10 killed and 30 injured.
One witness, Paul S., who asked ABC News to withhold his full name, said he had watched a fireworks display and went back to his hotel, going to bed around 2:00 a.m. CT. A little over an hour later, he woke up to popping sounds."We heard a 'pop, pop, pop, pop' sound, followed by a sound that sounded like fireworks going off, like a big firework all at once, and it turned out that was the crash," he said.
"There's litter all over the sidewalks, and then there were bodies laid up next to garbage cans and people rushing to give aid," he said. "There were...these really bright lights out on Bourbon Street and that illuminated the scene where you could look up and down a block and see it completely empty except for the bodies that were on the ground."
Another witness, Jimmy Cothran, told ABC News' Morgan Norwood he and his group ducked into a Bourbon Street nightclub when the commotion began.Cothran said he ran upstairs to the club's balcony and witnessed "body after body mangled just as far as you could see. We counted 10, and at least six were instantly clearly deceased. Some were very clearly deceased, but others were yelling out. ... It's a lot to process.
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