Crowds of people lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras and bring carnival season to a close. Crowds of people lined the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday to celebrate Mardi Gras and bring carnival season to a close. Mardi Gras Shannon Abraham, from Reno, Nevada, said she had spent dozens of hours designing and making her elaborate silver-sequined dress. Mardi Gras Carnival season, which starts on January 6, draws about 1 million visitors and pumps about 840 million dollars (£604 million) into the city’s economy, according to the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. Later, the New Orleans Police Department said it was investigating the shooting deaths of two men on Tuesday night just a couple of miles from Mardi Gras activities earlier in the day.

Source: Irish Independent February 14, 2018 02:48 UTC