Scenes From New Orleans After Attack on New Year’s Day

Officials in New Orleans were assessing the damage in the city’s French Quarter on Wednesday morning after an attack left at least 10 people dead and at least 35 injured, including two police officers.

A man drove a pickup truck at high speed into the crowds on Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. before crashing and opening fire, according to police officials. The attacker died in a shootout with the police. Officials identified the suspect as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, a U.S. citizen from Texas.

“He was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did,” the New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, said.

The F.B.I. said it was investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, and officials urged the public to stay away from the area.

The attack happened in the area of Canal and Bourbon Streets during celebrations in the city’s French Quarter.

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The truck used by the suspect had an Islamic State flag, weapons and a “potential” improvised explosive, according to officials.

The scene of the attack on Bourbon Street in downtown New Orleans.

Officials said that other potential bombs were also found in the French Quarter

Investigators said that they believed the attacker wanted to cause more casualties based on weapons found in the truck.

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In a news conference on Wednesday, New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the suspect had circumvented barricades.

This particular terrorist drove around onto the sidewalk and got around the hard target where we did have a car there. We had barriers there. We had officers there, and they still got around. Now, the wedges that you see out there as well, we knew that that had malfunction problems and I want you to understand, let’s say we put the wedge up and it got stuck, there is no way that an ambulance could get in or out. People couldn’t get in and out. So we knew that these were malfunction. So we did indeed have a plan, but the terrorist defeated it.

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In a news conference on Wednesday, Ms. Kirkpatrick said the suspect had circumvented barricades.

Law enforcement near the scene in the French Quarter.

The authorities were chasing down leads on Wednesday to learn more about the attack.

Streets in the French Quarter were blocked just hours after many people were in the area to celebrate New Year’s.

A New Orleans councilman who visited the two police officers in the hospital said they were in stable condition.

Many people were in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl at the city’s Superdome.