Eight people were killed and at least ten injured.

The result of a terrorist act that was committed in New York by a 29-year-old immigrant.

from Uzbekistan Saifullo Khabibullaevich Saipov - he came to the USA in 2010, and in the last.

time lived in Florida.

As reported by NBC News, on a rented pickup truck, he left for.

a bicycle path in the densely populated lower Manhattan and crushed.

cyclists and passers-by until they crashed into a school minibus. Official authorities.

immediately declared the incident a terrorist attack. After this, the criminal jumped out of.

car and shouting "Allah Akbar!" opened fire. The police, who opened fire in response, managed to shoot him. The suspect with a wound is placed in the hospital.

Bellevue.

The Mayor of New York, Bill de Blazio, at a briefing said that.

it was a "cowardly act of terror", which was intended to test the spirit of Americans. Six people - all men, died on the spot, two more victims.

died later, police commissioner James O'Neill clarified.. "Today in the lower.

Manhattan killed innocent people, "he said.. - It.

tragedy of the greatest scale ". O'Neill could not say in which garage the truck was leased,.

a terrorist tool. He also did not comment on whether the suspect.

"radicalized.

American ". It is only known that the weapon from which the attacker was shooting,.

was a gun for paintball, shooting balls with paint. The terrorist had also pneumatic weapons. As RT reports with reference to the Chief of Police of New York, after the attack on pedestrians and.

cyclists jumped out of the pickup and "uttered words that.

point to his connection with terrorists ". After that he was detained by policemen,.

but what exactly the terrorist said, he did not specify. Governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo said that the current attack - a case.

hands of the "Lone Wolf", and there is no reason "to suggest more.

wide plot ". The investigation was joined by a special joint FBI.

fight against terrorism. "Now the FBI agents will conduct a search at the place of residence of this.

person and will check it in connection with terrorist groups. Required.

to find out whether he acted alone or as part of an organized group, "- RT quotes the words of ex-director of national intelligence James Clapper. Witness Tawhid Kabir Sisan, 20, told NBC that he saw a man running along the street, he had two.

pistol. "He just ran in the middle of the street," confirmed a student of Hisan College. "I have heard.

five to six shots, but did not look at.

the road and did not see what happened there, because he was scared, "added.

he. And when I looked up, I saw that guy with two pistols, on the ground. Three or four policemen detained him ". Initially, the incident was reported as shooting near the street.

Chambers Street and the Western Highway, which are next to the state.

school 89. Another witness told NBC in New York that after crashing.

in the school bus, the man got out of the car and started shooting ". In.

The school yard had children, they rushed in all directions. The US President expressed.

Condolences to the families of those killed in the terrorist attack in New York,.

that everything that happened is very similar to "another attack of a very sick and abnormal person". On this background, the parade in honor of Halloween, in which.

Participation and Governor of Cuomo State, and Mayor de Blasio.

"New York will not restrain itself in the face of any force,.

trying to undermine our way of life, "- wrote the press secretary of the mayor of the city.

Eric Phillips in his microblogging. The media note that the scenario of the terrorist attack in New York is very.

recalls the attacks of terrorists that were committed earlier in Nice, Berlin,.

London, Stockholm, Barcelona. This way of attacking militants have been dubbed "loukost-terrorist attacks".

- they do not need a long, painstaking preparation, nor significant.

resources.