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’New Orleans attacker had a remote IED detonator in his vehicle’: US President Joe Biden
President Biden confirmed that Shamsud Din Jabbar had a remote detonator in his vehicle for IEDs located in ice coolers before he drove into a crowd in New Orleans. The FBI recovered two explosives he had planted in the French Quarter.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) informed that the New Orleans attacker had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that he planted in the ice coolers in the French Quarter before ramming his car into the crown on Bourbon street.
The FBI has recovered the two IEDs that the attacker, Shamsud Din Jabbar, placed in the coolers, CNN reported.
"They've established that the attacker is the same person who planted the explosives in those ice coolers in two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before he rammed into the crowd with his vehicle. They assessed he had a remote detonator in his vehicle to set off those two ice chests," Biden said.
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First Published:3 Jan 2025, 08:06 AM IST
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