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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

New Orleans’s famed Bourbon Street tries to return to normalcy after attack

a woman walking down the street with a cup in her hand
A woman walks on Bourbon Street on 2 January 2025. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

A sense of normalcy was returning to New Orleans as the city continued to deal with the aftermath of a lethal attack by the Islamic State-inspired military veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who killed 14 and wounded dozens before he was killed in a shootout with police.

The scene of the shocking mass murder – the Louisiana city’s famed Bourbon Street nightlife destination – reopened amid tight security.

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