Visitors to New Orleans for New Year’s Eve celebrations and the Sugar Bowl are being asked to stay away from the city’s most famous street, which has become a crime scene.
“I am asking the public to stay away from the eight blocks around Bourbon Street,” Mayor LaToya Cantrell said at a press conference Wednesday morning.
First responders from local, federal and state agencies have been on scene since early Wednesday morning, when the first calls for help were made.
“Responding to an accident with many victims. A vehicle plowed into a crowd,” a New Orleans Fire Department dispatcher radioed to emergency responders. “There are several injured and victims. They need you at Canal and Bourbon.”
Hit-and-run leaves at least 10 dead
At least 10 people died and another 30 were injured after a vehicle hit a crowd in New Orleans, on Canal and Bourbon Street, the city’s tourist streets.
The man driving the truck shot at police officers, said Wednesday morning (1st).
The attack in the popular French Quarter came just hours before the city was set to host The Sugar Bowl, an annual college football game that draws fans from across the country, with the University of Georgia taking on Notre Dame.
