NEW YORK —A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians before striking a school bus, in the city’s first deadly attack blamed on terror since Sept. 11, 2001. Television footage showed the mangled wreckage of the pickup truck, bicycles crushed to smithereens and bodies wrapped in sheets and lying on the ground. Eight people were killed, six of them men who died on the spot, and two others pronounced dead in hospital. In the aftermath of the attack, worried parents and children were seen being evacuated from a nearby public school. An American of Afghan descent, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, was convicted of terrorism on Oct. 16 in relation with that attack.

Source: The Standard November 01, 2017 15:56 UTC