A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a \u201ccowardly act of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleven others were seriously injured in the broad daylight assault and first deadly terror-related attack in America\u2019s financial and entertainment capital since the 11 September 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings brought down the Twin Towers.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump, who has curbed the number of migrants entering the United States, swiftly declared that the US \u201cmust not\u201d allow Islamic State jihadists to \u201creturn, or enter, our country after defeating them\u201d overseas.<\/p>\n
The truck driver struck just blocks from the 9\/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, and close to schools and a park at 3:05pm (1905 GMT) as children and their parents geared up to celebrate Halloween.<\/p>\n
Trump decried him as \u201cvery sick\u201d and a \u201cderanged person.\u201d Television networks identified the 29-year-old suspect as an Uzbek citizen living in Florida. He was shot by an officer in the abdomen and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
Police said he drove a rented Home Depot pickup down a bike and pedestrian lane, plowing into people on foot and bicycles before colliding with a school bus, injuring two adults and two children.<\/p>\n
The suspect stepped out of the vehicle, brandishing two apparent handguns, before being shot in the abdomen by a police officer, police said.<\/p>\n
A paintball gun and pellet gun were recovered at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians, aimed at people going about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them,\u201d said Mayor Bill de Blasio.<\/p>\n
Police said eight people were killed, six of them men who died on the spot, and two others pronounced dead in hospital. Eleven other people were taken to hospital with serious, but not life-threatening injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n
Belgium said one of its nationals was among the victims.<\/p>\n
\u2018Horrible tragedy\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n It was the city\u2019s first terror incident since a pipe bomb exploded in September 2016 in Chelsea, lightly wounding 31 people. An American of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, was convicted of terrorism on 16 October in relation with the attack.<\/p>\n Heavily armed police reinforcements were stepped up across the city of 8.5 million in the wake of that attack. Home to Wall Street, Broadway and one of the biggest tourist draws in the United States, it frequently goes on high alert.<\/p>\n A planned Halloween parade will go ahead as planned, proving that the city would not bow to threats, officials said.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Theresa May said she was appalled by the attack and that Britain stood with New York. \u201cTogether we will defeat the evil of terrorism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed solidarity. \u201cOur fight for freedom unites us more than ever,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n While details were preliminary and the investigation still underway, the mayor said the suspect appeared to have been a lone wolf and not part of a wider plot.<\/p>\n US media said the suspect shouted \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d and police chief James O\u2019Neill confirmed that he made a statement when he exited the vehicle.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you just look at the MO of the attack, that\u2019s consistent with what\u2019s been going on. So that along with the statement has enabled us to label this a terrorist event,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Television networks named him as Sayfullo Saipov, of Tampa, Florida. According to registry site WhitePages, a 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov has been living in Tampa since June 2011, and had other addresses registered in Ohio.<\/p>\n He was listed as having had several traffic-related minor violations.<\/p>\n In New York, police officers and ambulances swamped the area, in front of a park and next to a school as sirens wailed continuously and helicopters roared through the sky.<\/p>\n Worried parents gathered outside a public elementary school that had closed, waiting to see if they could collect children who stayed after the end of the classes for extracurricular lessons and activities.<\/p>\n \u2018Feel the pain\u2019<\/p>\n John Williams, 22, on his way to a park at the time, said he did not witness the shooting, but arrived 30 seconds afterward.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a smell of gunshots,\u201d he told AFP. \u201cThere was a man lying on the ground. It looked as if he\u2019d been shot.\u201d<\/p>\n State Governor Andrew Cuomo said the city was a \u201ctarget\u201d as an \u201cinternational symbol of freedom and democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve lived with this before, we\u2019ve felt the pain before. We feel the pain today. But we go forward together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n A witness who gave his name only as Frank told local television network NY1 that he saw a man running around an intersection, heard five to six gunshots and saw \u201cabout 100 cops\u201d flood into the street.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the cops shot him, everybody started running away and it got a little bit crazy right there. So when I tried to look again, the guy was already down,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s attack came five months after a US Navy veteran plowed a car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing an 18-year-old woman from Michigan and injuring 22 other people on 18 May in what de Blasio said was not an act of terror.<\/p>\n Previously, the most serious security breach in New York since Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani immigrant, plant a car bomb in Times Square on 1 May 2010.<\/p>\n His explosive device failed to detonate and he was arrested shortly after boarding a flight to the Middle East. He pleaded guilty and said he was aiming to avenge deaths from US missiles fired from drones operating over Pakistan.<\/p>\n He was sentenced to life behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians, before striking a school bus in what officials branded a \u201ccowardly act of terror.\u201d Eleven others were seriously injured in the broad daylight assault and first deadly terror-related attack in America\u2019s financial and entertainment capital since the 11 September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[893],"class_list":{"0":"post-5446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-ny-truck-attack-by-is-lone-wolf-kills-8"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}