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Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans

New Orleans coroner releases identities of most truck attack victims

group of people with arms around each other next to memorial, featuring pictures and crosses
A group of friends mourn the loss of Hubert Gauthreaux in New Orleans on Friday. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

The New Orleans coroner’s office has released the identities of most of the 14 people killed in the deadly truck attack against New Year’s Day revelers on the city’s famous Bourbon Street.

More than half of the 12 victims identified after being slain Wednesday by a US army veteran who was shot dead by police were from the New Orleans metropolitan area or other Louisiana communities. Others were residents of Alabama, Mississippi and New Jersey – and one was a British citizen.

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