8 Dead as Truck Careens Down Bike Path in Manhattan in Terror Attack
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8 Dead as Truck Careens Down Bike Path in Manhattan in Terror Attack
The rampage ended when the driver — whom the police identified as Sayfullo Saipov — smashed into a school bus, jumped out of his truck
and ran up and down the highway waving a pellet gun and paintball gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before he was shot in the abdomen by the officer.
A 29-year-old man plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people
and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11.
Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference, “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror,
and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Mr. Saipov came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and had a green card that allowed permanent legal residence.
The episodes also evoked calls from terrorist magazines, including in a recent edition of Rumiyah, a magazine used by ISIS, for attackers
to mow down pedestrians with trucks, continue the attacks with a knife or a gun and claim credit by shouting or leaving leaflets.
A man drove a truck for a mile down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing cyclists and pedestrians and then hitting a school bus.
Mr. Saipov, a slim, bearded man, was seen in videos running through traffic after
the attack with a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other.
A passer-by approached the attacker, apparently trying to calm him, Mr. Minovi said,
until the man realized the attacker had a gun and backed away with his hands up.
The rampage ended when the driver — whom the police identified as Sayfullo Saipov — smashed into a school bus, jumped out of his truck
and ran up and down the highway waving a pellet gun and paintball gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before he was shot in the abdomen by the officer.
A 29-year-old man plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people
and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11.
Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference, “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror,
and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”
Mr. Saipov came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and had a green card that allowed permanent legal residence.
The episodes also evoked calls from terrorist magazines, including in a recent edition of Rumiyah, a magazine used by ISIS, for attackers
to mow down pedestrians with trucks, continue the attacks with a knife or a gun and claim credit by shouting or leaving leaflets.
A man drove a truck for a mile down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing cyclists and pedestrians and then hitting a school bus.
Mr. Saipov, a slim, bearded man, was seen in videos running through traffic after
the attack with a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other.
A passer-by approached the attacker, apparently trying to calm him, Mr. Minovi said,
until the man realized the attacker had a gun and backed away with his hands up.