In light of back-to-back casualty incidents involving trucks, terrorism experts are warning of an increase in vehicle related attacks due to their low cost and high body count, USA Today reported on Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others before being shot to death by police, according to authorities. Later in the day, a Tesla-made Cybertruck exploded outside the entrance the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, killing the driver and injuring several others. In December, a Saudi psychiatrist deliberately drove a rented BMW SUV through a German Christmas market, killing five and injuring more than 200.
“The accessibility of vehicles makes this a widespread threat (for) any gathering of people, whether for a New Year’s celebration or just a normal weekend on Bourbon Street,” said Ryan Houser, a terrorism and mass-casualty-attack researcher and consultant who wrote a 2022 study on such attacks.
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