NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 31: NYPD officers stand guard during the annual Halloween parade after a man driving a rental truck struck and killed eight people on a jogging and bike path in Lower Manhattan on October 31, 2017 in New York City. Officials are reporting up to 8 dead and at least 15 people have been injured. Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP.
NEW YORK: A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday (Oct 31), mowing down cyclists and pedestrians before striking a school bus in what officials branded a “cowardly act of terror.”
Eleven others were seriously injured in the broad daylight assault and the first deadly terror-related attack in America’s financial and entertainment capital since the Sept 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings brought down the Twin Towers.
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