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08:42, 01-Nov-2017
Witnesses recount scenes of panic after New York terror attack
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With people screaming in fear and the path strewn with bodies and mangled bicycles, witnesses have described chaotic scenes of panic and blood after the truck attack in New York.
A 29-year-old man in a rented pickup truck Tuesday drove onto a busy bicycle path in lower Manhattan, killing at least eight people and injuring a dozen more.
John Williams, witness to the attack said he heard guns shots and saw a white pickup truck with Home Depot logos and a smashed front.
Tom Gay, a school photographer, was on Warren Street and heard people saying there was an accident. He went down to West Street and a woman came around the corner shouting, "He has a gun! He has a gun!"
Gay said he stuck his head around the corner and saw a slender man in a blue track suit running southbound on West Street holding a gun. He said there was a heavyset man pursuing him.
Eugene Duffy, 43, a chef at a waterfront restaurant, said he was crossing West Street when he heard something, turned back and saw the white pickup on the bike path.
After seeing the mangled bikes, he ran south, seeing the school bus that appeared to have been T-boned, and officers at the scene, guns drawn, ducked behind patrol cars.
"So many police came and they didn't know what was happening," Duffy said. "People were screaming. Females were screaming at the top of their lungs."
Uber driver Chen Yi said he saw a truck plow into people on a popular bike path adjacent to the West Side Highway. He said he then heard seven to eight shots and then police pointing a gun at a man kneeling on the pavement.
"I saw a lot of blood over there. A lot of people on the ground," Yi said.
(With inputs from AP, Reuters)