Uber: Suspect In Lower Manhattan Terror Attack Was Driver With Ridesharing Service

The man who killed at least eight people by driving a truck down a busy bicycle path in New York City on Tuesday has been identified by news organizations in the USA and elsewhere as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old commercial truck driver originally from Uzbekistan.

“The vehicle continued south striking another vehicle”.

New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill declined to publicly identify the driver.

Fox News has reported unverified claims that he may have shouted “Allahu Akbar”.

According to the NYPD, one person is in custody and no suspects are outstanding.

In a phone interview, Kobiljon Matkarov, 37, an Uzbeki immigrant said he met Mr. Saipov in Fort Myers, Fla., several years ago when Mr. Saipov was working as a truck driver.

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were briefed on the incident at the scene. The attacks, which involved a third plane that crashed into the Pentagon and a plane that crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killed 2,996 people and injured over 6,000 others.

The truck drove down the path, hitting bicyclists and pedestrians.

“I really hope this is inaccurate”, the president’s son wrote.

Gay said he stuck his head around the corner and saw a slender man in a blue track suit running on West Street holding a gun.

The friends were visiting NY as part of a 30th anniversary school reunion when they were killed, the country’s foreign ministry revealed.

Saipov doesn’t appear to have an exenstive criminal background, CBS News’ justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Ayana Harry from WPIX in NY about the attack in Manhattan today. “And just thinking about the senseless blood that was spilled and thinking about the families who are now in mourning, it’s hard to even talk”.

Similar attacks in Europe past year killed dozens of people.

He also left a note behind in the rental truck, pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

1993: Militants detonated a truck bomb below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in February, killing six people and injuring over a thousand.

Witnesses said some at first thought the attack a Halloween prank.