8 Dead as Truck Careens Down Bike Path in Manhattan in Terror Attack<br />The rampage ended when the driver — whom the police identified as Sayfullo Saipov — smashed into a school bus, jumped out of his truck<br />and ran up and down the highway waving a pellet gun and paintball gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar,” Arabic for “God is great,” before he was shot in the abdomen by the officer.<br />A 29-year-old man plowed a pickup truck down a crowded bike path along the Hudson River in Manhattan on Tuesday, killing eight people<br />and injuring 11 before being shot by a police officer in what officials are calling the deadliest terrorist attack on New York City since Sept. 11.<br />Mr. de Blasio said at a news conference, “Based on information we have at this moment, this was an act of terror,<br />and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.”<br />Mr. Saipov came to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, and had a green card that allowed permanent legal residence.<br />The episodes also evoked calls from terrorist magazines, including in a recent edition of Rumiyah, a magazine used by ISIS, for attackers<br />to mow down pedestrians with trucks, continue the attacks with a knife or a gun and claim credit by shouting or leaving leaflets.<br />A man drove a truck for a mile down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing cyclists and pedestrians and then hitting a school bus.<br />Mr. Saipov, a slim, bearded man, was seen in videos running through traffic after<br />the attack with a paintball gun in one hand and a pellet gun in the other.<br />A passer-by approached the attacker, apparently trying to calm him, Mr. Minovi said,<br />until the man realized the attacker had a gun and backed away with his hands up.
