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Eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured after a man drove a truck nearly a mile down a bike path in Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, striking pedestrians, cyclists and a school bus.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said the incident was being treated as an act of terror, 「a particularly cowardly act of terror」. De Blasio said a police officer assigned to the area stopped the attacker by shooting him in the stomach.
After smashing into the school bus, injuring two adults and two children, the 29-year-old suspect exited the truck displaying 「imitation firearms」 and was shot by police, according to the New York police department (NYPD). The suspect was in custody, and a paintball gun and a pellet gun were recovered at the scene.
Police said the truck drove south after entering a pedestrian and bicycle path, where it struck multiple people. Six men were pronounced dead at the scene on the cycle lane and two other people were dead on arrival at the hospital.
「It is a very painful day in our city,」 De Blasio said.
The suspect was said to be Sayfullo Saipov, an Uzbek national. The suspect has not yet been officially named.
Saipov was said to have entered the US in 2010. He has a Florida license but may have been living in New Jersey, reports said.
A woman from Cincinnati, Ohio, who identified herself as Dilfuza Iskhakova, said that Saipov had stayed at her home there for several months about six years ago, after arriving in the US from Uzbekistan. 「He seemed like a nice guy, but he didn’t talk much,」 said Iskhakova. 「He only went to work and came back. He used to work at a warehouse.」
Iskhakova said Saipov had been applying for a green card when she knew him. Ohio state records show he registered a business involving vehicles to her home in May 2011. Iskhakova said her family lost contact with Saipov in recent years. She said she thought he had moved from Ohio to Florida, and then to the New York region, and that he now had a wife and two young daughters.
She said she did not know if Saipov was religious.
「He’s from my country,」 Iskhakova said. 「His father knows my husband, and sent Sayfullo here because he didn’t know anyone.」
Source: https://www.theguardian.com
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