The terrorist trail was ruled out after a truck crashed into the sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York. Among the injured, two people are in serious condition.
Refusal to comply
A speeding truck struck pedestrians on a wide sidewalk Monday in Brooklyn, New York. At least eight people, including a policeman, were injured. Two of them are in serious condition. Of the eight injured, three were riding small mopeds. “At least eight people were injured on Monday at New York after a man driving a van hit them in various places in the megalopolis”said the police quoted by The Parisian. THE facts occurred at the end of the morning after a refusal to comply by the driver of the rental van.
The terrorist track excluded
At this stage, the terrorist track is ruled out, underlined the New York police. “There is no indication of an involvement of terrorism” in this affair, underlined during a brief press briefing on the spot, in Brooklyn, the head of NYPD, Keechant Sewell. However, she added that for the moment, very little information has been relayed about this case. It should be noted that the accident took place at the opening of a trial in Manhattan of an Uzbek. The latter faces the death penalty for having, on October 31, 2017, killed eight people. The man driving his pick-up had intentionally overturned and crushed his victims, an attack carried out in the name of the Islamic State group.
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DEVELOPING : U-Haul truck strikes multiple pedestrians in New York City in possible ‘terrorism incident’#Brooklyn l #N.Y
Police report numerous people are injured following the ramming. Bomb squad units have been requested to the scene immediately.
This is a developing situation. pic.twitter.com/5IsjPvrLfX— Intel Point Alert (@IntelPointAlert) February 13, 2023
