'Bodies up and down the street': New Orleans witnesses describe scene of truck attack – video

At least 15 people have been killed and 30 injured after 42-year-old US citizen Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a Ford pickup into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans' famous Bourbon Street on New Years Day. Witness Zion Parsons watched as the vehicle plowed into a close friend who died at the scene. 'A truck hit the corner and comes barreling through throwing people like in a movie scene, throwing people into the air,' he said.

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