Truck attack kills 8 in US

New York: A domestically radicalised Uzbek man yelling 'God is great' ploughed a pickup truck down a crowded bicycle path here on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 11 others in the deadliest terror attack on the city since 9/11.

The 29-year-old suspect, a sympathiser of the Islamic State terror group, was shot in the stomach by a police officer before being arrested. The Uzbek man has been identified as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, an immigrant from the Central Asian country, who came to the US legally in 2010.

The incident took place near the World Trade Centre and along the normally gridlocked West Side Highway, a major thoroughfare that runs along the western edge of Manhattan by the Hudson River as Americans celebrated Halloween.

The attacker left nearly a half km crime scene -- a tree-lined bike path strewn with mangled bicycles and their parts. Police said the truck drove south after entering a pedestrian and bicycle path, where it struck multiple people. Six men were pronounced dead at the scene on the cycle lane and two other people were dead on arrival at the hospital.

The victims included five Argentinians and a Belgian citizen. Two other victims have not yet been identified. After smashing the truck into a school bus, injuring two adults and two children, the suspect exited the truck displaying "imitation firearms" and was shot by police, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD). Officers were able to talk to Saipov before the surgery, but it was unclear if he told them anything, a law enforcement official said.