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‘ACT OF TERROR:’ Mayor, NYPD Commissioner Say EIGHT Dead In Manhattan Attack, Suspect Alive But Injured

Emily Zanotti

New York mayor Bill de Blasio called Tuesday’s truck attack on Manhattan’s Lower East side an “act of terror” in a press conference held late Tuesday afternoon.

The mayor, New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York city police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, spoke at the conference, telling media that a total of eight people have died and a dozen were injured in the attack, which took place Tuesday afternoon on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, not far from the World Trade Center.

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