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In pictures: New York truck attack

Reuters New York police investigate a vehicle allegedly used in the attackReuters
A white pick-up truck mowed people down after entering the West St-Houston St pedestrian-bike path in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, the New York Police Department says.
EPA Mangled bikes in Lower ManhattanEPA
At least eight people are now known to have been killed and 11 were seriously injured. Mangled bikes littered the area after the incident.
Reutes Scene of the incident in New YorkReutes
While driving south on the path, the truck collided with a school bus, the police say.
AFP/Getty Images US police secure the area in Lower ManhattanAFP/Getty Images
A man who then emerged from the vehicle brandishing imitation guns was shot and arrested by police officers. Police said only that he was 29, but local media named him as Sayfullo Saipov, an immigrant who arrived in the US in 2010.
Reuters An injured woman is treated by first respondersReuters
Some of the injured were treated by first responders at the scene...
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...while others were taken to hospitals.
AFP/Getty Images A young girl cries after the incident in New YorkAFP/Getty Images
Many eyewitnesses were traumatised by the incident. Police urged people to avoid the area as a major emergency services operation got under way.
Reuters A police dog checks out vehicles at the scene of the incidentReuters
Police dogs are being used to check vehicles.
Reuters Parents pick up their children from schoolReuters
Pupils from a nearby school were picked up immediately by their parents, as police sealed off the area.
EPA NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill (left), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (centre) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (right) discuss the incidentEPA
Top city and state officials held a crisis meeting to co-ordinate their response. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was "cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians". President Donald Trump described the attacker as "a very sick and deranged person".