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Attack suspect shot by police, recovering in hospital
Police have declined to identify the man but a source familiar with the investigation identified him as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov and said he was not a U.S. citizen. His immigration status was not immediately clear, according to Reuters.
Saipov was shot by a police officer while attempting to flee minutes after the attack and was whisked away to a local hospital, where he was recovering from an abdominal wound.
With authorities saying they believe the attack was a "terrorist event," the lack of disclosure may reflect the nature of the investigation, which is still in its earliest stage.
Uzbek immigrant with New Jersey ties at center of New York truck attack probe
The man accused of killing eight people by racing a pickup truck down a New York city bike path on Tuesday may have worked as a driver and lived in New Jersey after emigrating from Uzbekistan seven years ago, Reuters reported authorities and media reports as saying.
Few other details about the 29-year-old suspect have emerged since the Tuesday afternoon vehicle rampage in lower Manhattan, blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the landmark World Trade Centre Twin Towers.
Police have declined to identify the man but a source familiar with the investigation identified him as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov and said he was not a U.S. citizen. His immigration status was not immediately clear.
The Police have identified suspect in truck attack as a 29-year-old Uzbek citizen Sayfullo Saipov, Officials speaking to The Associated Press have said, according to media reports.
The driver was shot by police after jumping out of the truck. He was carrying a fake gun in each hand and shouting what witnesses said was "Allahu Akbar!," Arabic for "God is great," sources have said.
New York Police Chief James O'Neill has confirmed that 8 people have been killed. Eleven people have been taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
A driver in a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in what authorities said was an act of terrorism.
It was the greatest loss of life from a suspected terrorist attack in New York since suicide hijackers crashed jetliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, killing more than 2,600 people, according to Reuters.
ISIS note found in New York attacker's truck, says governor
Investigators at the scene of a terrorist attack in New York, where a man mowed people down by driving a rented truck down a popular cycle path on Tuesday afternoon, have found a note at the scene referencing Islamic State, the governor of New York said on Wednesday morning, reports The Guardian.
Andrew Cuomo told CBS the investigation into the attack was continuing but said law enforcement officers had possession of the note.
It was reportedly found inside the truck and mentioned ISIS.
NYSE and Nasdaq observe a moment of silence honouring victims of Tuesday's New York City terror attack
Suspect has a history of traffic violations
Reuters, citing media reports and court records had reported earlier today that the suspect has a history of traffic violations.
In an earlier case, Saipov had been stopped in central Pennsylvania for pulling a truck trailer that was longer than permitted by law and driving with the wrong operator’s licence, according to Reuters.
Saipov had listed both Paterson, New Jersey and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, as his addresses. He paid his fine and was not required to appear in court.
First responders stand at the crime scene on the bike path shortly after the attack
No Indian casualties in the attack: Indian Consulate
No Indian casualties has been reported in the deadly attack in New York city that killed at least eight persons, the Consulate General of India has said, according to PTI.
At least 11 others were injured after an Uzbek-origin man allegedly inspired by the ISIS ploughed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path near the World Trade Centre in Lower Manhattan.
"Our sources in the New York Police Department (NYPD) indicate there are no Indian names amongst the casualties. So far preliminary information," the consulate tweeted.
The Indian mission is in touch with the NYPD to ascertain more details, it said.
Police investigating the vehicle allegedly used in the attack
Uzbekistan tells Trump it is ready to help investigate New York attack
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has told US President Donald Trump in a letter of condolences on Wednesday that his country is ready to use all its resources to help investigate the deadly New York City attack, according to Reuters.
The Tashkent government had earlier said that it was investigating reports that an Uzbek man was behind the attack which killed eight people and injured about a dozen in what US authorities said was an act of terrorism.
Uzbekistan probing reports of Uzbek-origin suspect
Uzbekistan is investigating reports that the man who killed eight people in New York by mowing them down in a truck is a citizen of the Central Asian nation, an Uzbek Foreign Ministry official told reporters on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
The official provided no other information.
A U.S. law enforcement official described the suspect as a U.S. immigrant born in Uzbekistan, a landlocked, predominantly Muslim country in Central Asia that was part of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991.
U.S. police declined to publicly identify the man, but a source familiar with the investigation said his name was Sayfullo Saipov, 29.
New York terror attack: What we know so far
The suspect in the attack is 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov who came from Uzbekistan to the United States in 2010. He is a resident of New Jersey and drove for Uber, as per media reports.
Taxi aggregator Uber said Saipov had passed their background check; they are trying to provide authorities with all the information they have on the suspect.
A New York City police officer shot the attacker in the abdomen and he has gone through surgery.
Read the full story here.
Police block a section of the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, New York
13 were killed in another vehicle attack in Barcelona, in August this year
In a similar vehicle attack in August this year, a van driver had ploughed into pedestrians on Barcelona's most popular street in broad daylight, killing 13 people in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
Police had announced the arrest of two suspects, identified as a Spaniard and a Moroccan, but said the driver was still on the run.
Witnesses had told of scenes of chaos and horror, with bodies strewn along the famous boulevard as other people fled for their lives, screaming in panic.
Read the full story here.
Deadly Halloween attack in New York branded 'terrorism' by authorities: Report
The Uzbek immigrant accused of killing 8 people in New York by driving a rental truck down a bike path on Tuesday appeared to have acted alone, but the Halloween Day attack had all the hallmarks of terrorism, authorities have said, according to Reuters.
NY police officials name Uzbek national Sayfullo Saipov as Manhattan truck attack suspect
The police have reportedly said that according to his neighbours, Saipov lived on and off in his Paterson residence for three years along with his wife and two children.
Saipov has a series of traffic offences against him as he had pleaded guilty for two offences in Pensylvania between 2012 and 2015.
Read the full story here.
Here's what we known about the Manhattan truck attack:
> Around 3:05 pm local time, a man drove a truck onto the West Side Highway bike path in Lower Manhattan, New York city. The driver continued driving the truck through the bike path, hitting pedestrians and bicyclists.
> The truck then collided with a school bus, which made it halt. The driver then got off the truck with a pellet gun and a paintball gun in his two hands. Media reports suggest that the suspect yelled "Allahu Akbar".
> A police officer present at the spot fired at the man, hitting him in the abdomen. The suspect was wounded and taken into custody. Media reports suggest that he is recovering in the hospital.
> Police confirmed that 8 people were killed and 11 were injured. New York Mayor has called the incident "cowardly act of terror".
> Officials close to the investigation told media that the suspect has been identified as Uzbek-origin 29-year-old named Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. Cab aggregator Uber confirmed that Saipov used to work with them and assured full cooperation in the investigation.
Patterson Police Department vehicles block off a street in front of a mosque
Attack suspect shot by police, recovering in hospital
Police have declined to identify the man but a source familiar with the investigation identified him as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov and said he was not a U.S. citizen. His immigration status was not immediately clear, according to Reuters.
Saipov was shot by a police officer while attempting to flee minutes after the attack and was whisked away to a local hospital, where he was recovering from an abdominal wound.
With authorities saying they believe the attack was a "terrorist event," the lack of disclosure may reflect the nature of the investigation, which is still in its earliest stage.
Who is Sayfullo Saipov? The Manhattan truck attack suspect
The 29-year-old suspect may have worked as a driver and lived in New Jersey after emigrating from Uzbekistan seven years ago.
Uzbek immigrant with New Jersey ties at center of New York truck attack probe
The man accused of killing eight people by racing a pickup truck down a New York city bike path on Tuesday may have worked as a driver and lived in New Jersey after emigrating from Uzbekistan seven years ago, Reuters reported authorities and media reports as saying.
Few other details about the 29-year-old suspect have emerged since the Tuesday afternoon vehicle rampage in lower Manhattan, blocks from the site of the September 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the landmark World Trade Centre Twin Towers.
Police have declined to identify the man but a source familiar with the investigation identified him as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov and said he was not a U.S. citizen. His immigration status was not immediately clear.
Here are some of the other major attacks carried out in New York city since the September 11, 2001 attack:
2017 - James Harris Jackson, a 28-year-old white man, stabbed Timothy Caughman, an African-American, multiple times with a sword in March. Caughman later died of his injuries and Jackson told police he travelled to the city from Maryland to kill black men.
2016 - As many as 31 people were wounded after 3 bombs exploded in the New York area, two in Manhattan's Chelsea neighbourhood and one in New Jersey, in September. Several unexploded bombs were also found.
Suspect Ahmad Khan Rahimi of New Jersey, was captured after a shootout with police. Prosecutors said that Rahimi who was born in Afghanistan and was influenced by anti-American materials believed to be produced by Islamist militant group al Qaeda.
2010 - Times Square was evacuated in May after a car bomb that failed to explode was found in a sport utility vehicle. Naturalized American and Taliban-trained militant Faisal Shahzad had later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
2008 - An individual detonated a small pipe bomb in front of the US Armed Forces recruiting station in Times Square in March. No one was injured in the incident.
(With Reuters inputs)
Thousands of undeterred New Yorkers flock to Manhattan Halloween parade despite attack
Thousands of merry-makers, many dressed in elaborate Halloween costumes, paraded through lower Manhattan on Tuesday, undeterred by the attack that unfolded just hours earlier when a driver mowed down dozens of people on a bike path a few blocks away, Reuters has reported.
Revelers who joined the 44th annual Village Halloween Parade said they were painfully aware that eight people were killed in what authorities say was an act of terrorism but carried on with the festivities to show fortitude and solidarity with the victims.
Police are seen investigating the scene of the truck attack on the West Side Highway in Manhattan, New York
Argentina, Belgium confirm death of nationals
As many as 5 Argentines and 1 Belgian are among the 8 killed in truck attack today, The Associated Press has quoted foreign ministers as saying.
President Donald Trump orders "extreme vetting program"
Following truck attack in New York that killed 8 people, US President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to step up its "extreme vetting program".
"I have just ordered Homeland Security to step up our already Extreme Vetting Program. Being politically correct is fine, but not for this!" Trump tweeted.