What we know about the New Orleans attacker

Ten radical are dormant and astatine slightest 35 injured aft a antheral drove into a ample assemblage successful New Orleans successful the aboriginal hours of New Year's Day, authorities person said.

Here's what we cognize truthful far.

The antheral who thrust the motortruck done a assemblage connected Bourbon Street aboriginal Wednesday greeting has been identified arsenic 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar.

The FBI confirmed earlier contiguous the incidental is being invesrigated arsenic an "act of terrorism" and CBS confirmed that helium was killed by constabulary gunfire.

Police said earlier that helium had fired astatine officers erstwhile they responded to the scene.

Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) adjunct peculiar cause Alethea Duncan said instrumentality enforcement does not judge that the fishy was solely liable for the attack.

She asked that anyone with accusation oregon who whitethorn person interacted with the suspected operator of the conveyance successful the past 17 hours interaction the FBI.

She says "this is an ongoing probe that's rapidly evolving."

Agent Duncan confirms the attacker was an Army veteran, saying they judge helium was connected discharge, but cannot presently corroborate this.

The motortruck helium was in, a achromatic Ford F-150 Lightning, with a heavy damaged beforehand was geolocated by the BBC Verify squad successful beforehand of Rick's Cabaret connected Bourbon Street, adjacent the Conti Street intersection.

Officials said the conveyance was rented and did not beryllium to the suspect, according to officials.

Investigators said they recovered 2 imaginable explosive devices astatine the scene.

A agelong weapon with a "suppressive device" connected it - acting arsenic a silencer - was recovered from the scene, CBS reported.

At 0315 connected New Year's Day, that helium a pickup motortruck astatine precocious velocity into a ample assemblage successful Bourbon Street successful the bosom of New Orleans' French Quarter.

Police described the enactment arsenic "very intentional", adding that helium was "hell-bent connected creating the carnage and the harm that helium did".

"This antheral was trying to tally implicit arsenic galore radical arsenic helium perchance could", said New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick.

The operator fired from his vehicle, injuring 2 officers. They are successful a unchangeable condition, authorities said.

Police said 10 radical were killed and astatine slightest 35 injured. None of them person been identified yet.

The injured person been sent to respective country hospitals for treatment.

Police said it appeared that the victims were chiefly locals from the metropolis of New Orleans successful Louisiana.

Bourbon Street is simply a well-known nightlife and tourer hotspot that is filled with restaurants, bars and clubs with unrecorded music.

It is wrong New Orleans' French Quarter, a lively country that attracts tourists and locals, particularly to observe the caller year.

It was established by the French successful 1718, and the archetypal grid of streets designed backmost past is the bosom of tourism successful the city.

Every year, upwards of a cardinal radical flock to its celebrated Mardi Gras carnival and parade successful the spring, celebrated for the strings of colourful beads worn by party-goers.

The Sugar Bowl, betwixt the US assemblage shot teams for Notre Dame and the University of Georgia, is expected to spell connected arsenic scheduled Wednesday nighttime astatine the city's Caesars Superdome, according to CBS.

Special Agent Duncan confirmed astatine a greeting quality league that the bureau had taken implicit the investigation.

She stressed that the nationalist should enactment distant from the country "until we tin fig retired what is going on".

Police asked that the nationalist enactment wide of Bourbon Street betwixt Canal and St Ann streets.

New Orleans mayor, LaToya Cantrell, said the precedence Wednesday day continued to beryllium removing victims from Bourbon Street arsenic soon arsenic possible.

The Sugar Bowl, an yearly assemblage American shot game, has been postponed until Thursday evening due to the fact that of the incidental successful New Orleans.

It was owed to footwear disconnected aboriginal contiguous astatine the Caesar Superdowm which is not acold from the Bourbon Street scene. The University of Georgia was acceptable to instrumentality connected Notre Dame.

Earlier, the University of Georgia's president said 1 of its students was critically injured successful the onslaught and is receiving aesculapian treatment.

A witnesser who was connected Bourbon Street astatine the clip of the incidental has conscionable shared immoderate of the harrowing scenes.

Whit Davis, from Shreveport, Louisiana, told the BBC: "We had been connected and astir Bourbon Street since the opening of the evening.

"When we were successful the barroom we didn't perceive shooting oregon crashes due to the fact that the euphony was truthful loud," Mr Davis said.

Police held Mr Davis and a radical of radical successful the bar, and erstwhile they were allowed to permission helium said they "were walking past dormant and injured bodies each implicit the street".

Officials are investigating whether the fishy was connected to oregon inspired by a overseas panic organisation, according to BBC's US quality spouse CBS.

US Attorney General Merrick Garland said the FBI is investigating the incidental arsenic an "act of terrorism".

The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Justice Department's National Security Division, and the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana "will proceed to enactment with our instrumentality enforcement partners and volition deploy each disposable assets to behaviour this investigation", helium added.