CAR DRIVES INTO ALABAMA MARDI GRAS PARADE; 11 HURT

Several members of the Gulf Shores High School marching band were injured Tuesday morning after a car drove into the crowd ahead of the Mardi Gras Day parade.

A city spokesperson told local media that 11 band members were injured in the crash, and that three of them are in critical condition.

It is the second instance in less than a week of a car crashing into a Mardi Gras crowd. Late Saturday, a pickup plowed into a crowd watching the parade of the Krewe of Endymion, injuring 32 people.

DAN ANDERSON, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Marchers with the Krewe of Zulu parade through the streets of New Orleans on Fat Tuesday. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the city’s Mardi Gras celebrations in the days leading up to Ash Wednesday.