New Orleans attack – New Orleans attacker hid bombs in ice coolers, had detonator in truck: Biden

The New Orleans attacker had planted remotely operated explosives inside coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter just a few hours before driving a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of people celebrating New Year’s Day, US President Joe Biden said. The ISIS-inspired attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a “remote detonator” to carry out the blast.

Citing reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Biden said, “They have established that the attacker was 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”.