The NYPD is “closely monitoring” the investigation into the New Year’s Eve terror attack in New Orleans that left 10 dead — a massacre that President Biden is calling “an act of terrorism.”
NYPD cops are “coordinating with federal and regional partners” probing the 3:15 a.m. attack in the city’s famed French Quarter where a man rammed a pick-up truck into a crowd of people, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism Rebecca Weiner said in a statement.
Ten people were killed in the attack and more than 30 injured.
The driver was killed in a firefight with police following the attack along Bourbon St. near Canal St. in an area teeming with New Year’s revelers, the FBI said.
One suspected improvised explosive device was recovered at the scene, prompting a bomb sweep of the area, federal officials told the Associated Press
So far the NYPD has not uncovered any links between New York and the New Orleans attack.
“We have not identified any specific or credible threats or any nexus to New York City at this time,” Weiner said.
President Biden said the FBI was investigating the attack “as an act of terrorism.”
“I have directed my team to ensure every resource is available as federal, state, and local law enforcement work assiduously to get to the bottom of what happened as quickly as possible and to ensure that there is no remaining threat of any kind,” Biden said.
