Truck driver

about their lives who had no idea what was about to hit them,” said

- last year.

The Uzbek citizen living in Tampa, Florida had recently been staying in New Jersey, where the truck was rented, reports said.

President Donald Trump de

most serious terror-related incident since taking power less than a year ago, the Republican com he had ordered the Department

- low Islamic State group jihadists to declined to link the assailant to a

Trump has sought to ban travel a move he casts as necessitated by security considerations and critics say is anti-Muslim.

struck down in the courts, and Uzbekistan was in any case not

Police said the attacker drove a rented Home Depot pickup down a bike and pedestrian lane, where tourists and New Yorkers were out - liding with a school bus, wound- ing two adults and two children.

The suspect then exited the vehicle brandishing weapons that a paintball gun and pellet gun, custody, police said.

truck, bicycles crushed to smithereens and bodies wrapped in sheets and lying on the ground.

them men who died on the spot, and two others pronounced dead in hospital. Eleven other people were taken to hospital with serious

Five Argentines were among the - - gian woman was killed and three

-

- eral in New York immediately issued an advisory calling on Filipi the incident and exercise caution.

York Police Department and so Theresa Dizon-de Vega said.

European allies and Mexico’s presi May. French President Emmanuel Ma unites us more than ever.”

US media said the suspect he made a statement when he exited the vehicle.