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New Orleans New Year's Day ramming is the latest attack to use a vehicle as a deadly weapon

APTOPIX New Orleans Car Into Crowd - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Police say a person who drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in New Orleans early Wednesday was hell-bent on creating carnage. While a motive for the attack that killed at least 10 people has yet to be revealed, the FBI is investigating it as a terrorist act.

Several such attacks have taken place over the past two decades, some inspired by extremist politics and others blamed on mental illness or misogyny.

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