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- New Orleans reported a mass casualty event on Bourbon Street.
- Police said a vehicle may have plowed into a group of people and there are reported deaths.
- The city’s public safety body said 10 people were killed and 30 injured.
New Orleans’ public safety body on Wednesday said that 10 people were killed and 30 more injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd in the heart of the city’s party district.
NOLA Ready, the city’s emergency preparedness campaign, said there was “a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle that drove into a large crowd on Canal and Bourbon Street.”
It said that “there are 30 injured patients that have been transported by NOEMS and 10 fatalities,” and that its public safety partners were responding on scene.
NOLA Ready had written earlier on X that “there has been a mass casualty incident on Canal and Bourbon Street. Get yourself away from the area.”
A New Orleans Police spokesperson told CBS News that “initial reports show a car may have plowed into a group of people. Injuries are unknown but there are reported fatalities.”
A witness told CBS that a truck drove into the crowd at Bourbon Street at high speed and that the driver got out and started firing a weapon, with the police firing back.
The eyewitness said there were multiple people on the ground with injuries.
Bourbon Street, in the city’s French Quarter, is a famous party destination known for drinking and revelry.
This article was originally published by Sinéad Baker at All Content from Business Insider – Read this article and more at (https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-casuality-event-reported-new-orleans-bourbon-and-canal-street-2025-1).
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