You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Thursday, the 2nd of January.

We have the latest on the suspected terror attack in New Orleans,

as the US authorities say they do not believe the man who rammed his truck into New Year revelers acted alone.

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But we start in New Orleans, which was hit by a suspected terror attack just after 3am into the new year.

There have been a number of developments since the coverage in our earlier podcast.

The coroner of the city now says at least 15 people were killed when a pickup truck ploughowed into revelers in Bourbon Street in the

French quarter of the city. After crashing the vehicle, the driver opened fire before being

shot dead by police. At a news conference, FBI Special Agent Alethea Duncan said investigators

didn't believe he was acting alone. The subject has been identified as 42-year-old Samud Dim Jabar, a U.S.-born citizen from Texas.

He was driving a Ford pickup truck which appears to be rented and we are working to confirm

how the subject came in possession of this vehicle.

An ISIS flag was located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle,

and the FBI is working to determine the subject's potential associations and affiliations

with terrorist organizations. We are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.

We're aggressively running down all the leads to identify the possible subjects associates.

We're working to ensure that there is no further threat.

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