New Orleans attack live news updates: President Biden says New Orleans attacker had a remote IED detonator in his vehicle with ISIS flag
03 Jan 2025 | 07:14:45 AM IST
President Joe Biden makes a statement on the latest developments in New Orleans from Camp David, Md., Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.
Synopsis
US President Joe Biden announced that the New Orleans attacker, Shamsud Din Jabbar, had a remote detonator to set off IEDs in ice coolers on Bourbon Street before driving into the crowd. The FBI recovered the explosive devices, and 15 people, including the attacker, were killed.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) informed that the New Orleans attacker had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that he planted in the ice coolers in the French Quarter before ramming his car into the crown on Bourbon street.
The FBI has recovered the two IEDs that the attacker, Shamsud Din Jabbar, placed in the coolers, CNN reported.
“They’ve established that the attacker is the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle. They assessed he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests,” Biden said.
Biden has also told reporters gathered in the White House’s East Room that he’ll try to travel to New Orleans, CNN reported.
Meanwhile, the US President informed that 15 people, including the attacker, have been killed in the New Orleans attack on New Year’s night.
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US President Joe Biden says, “…The number of people killed in New Orleans has risen to 15, including the attacker, 35 people were injured. Today the FBI briefed me that as of now, we have no information that anyone else is involved in the attack. They’ve established that the attacker was the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle…As I said yesterday, the attacker posted several videos just several hours before the attack indicating his strong support for ISIS. Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community are actively investigating any foreign or domestic contacts and connections that could possibly be relevant to the attack. And so we’re also continuing to investigate whether or not there’s any connection between the New Orleans attack and the explosion in Las Vegas. As of now, they’ve just been briefed, they have not found any evidence of such a connection thus far…”