Truck driver mows down eight in New York ‘act of terror’

A pickup driver killed eight people in New York on Tuesday, mowing down cyclists and pedestrians in the city's first deadly “act of terror” since September 11, 2001. Eleven others were seriously hurt when the truck driver struck in broad daylight just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, close to schools as children and their parents geared up to celebrate Halloween.