US President Joe Biden has said that Shamsuddin Jabbar, the man who attacked people celebrating New Year in New Orleans, carried out the incident alone and there are indications that he was a staunch supporter of ISIS. .
The celebration to welcome the New Year in New Orleans, USA early on Wednesday turned into a tragedy when Jabbar ran a pickup truck on the celebrating people. At least 14 people died and 35 others were injured in the incident.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it was investigating the case as a terrorist attack. The accused was a 42-year-old former Texas state soldier and was killed in an encounter with the local police.
“The FBI told me today that we have yet to find any evidence that anyone else was involved in the attack,” Biden told reporters. They learned that the attacker was the same person who had planted explosives in ice coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter just hours before he drove his vehicle into the crowd.
Biden said, “They estimate that his vehicle had a remote detonator to blow up these two coolers.” He said, “The attacker had posted several videos just hours before the attack, which show that He was a staunch supporter of ISIS.” He said federal law enforcement and the intelligence community are actively investigating the case.
Biden held a meeting with his national security team immediately after returning from Camp David on Thursday afternoon. He told reporters that authorities were also investigating whether there was any connection between the attack in New Orleans and the explosion in Las Vegas.
A suspected person traveling in a ‘Tesla Cybertruck’ exploded on Wednesday outside US President-elect Donald Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas.
