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Anna Betts, Marina Dunbar and Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans

‘She was the sweetest person’: first details of New Orleans victims emerge

workers cleaning the street
The site in New Orleans where the attack took place. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Reuters

The victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans make up a tragic but vivid tapestry of the characteristically cosmopolitan crowd that descends on the city’s famous French Quarter to celebrate any occasion.

Authorities have not yet released the names of those killed in the suspected terrorist attack, which killed at least 14 people and injured dozens more, but details have emerged as family members and friends speak out.

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