New Orleans coroner releases identities of most truck attack victims

More than half of the 12 identified were from local areas and all ranged in age from 18 to 63

The New Orleans coroner's office has released the identities of most of the 14 people killed in the deadly truck attack aimed at New Year's Day revelers on the city's famous Bourbon Street.

More than half of the 12 victims identified after being slain Wednesday by the attacker - a US army veteran who was shot dead by police - were from the New Orleans metropolitan area or other Louisiana communities. Others were residents of Alabama, Mississippi and New Jersey.