The FBI said it was investigating early Wednesday's attack in which the driver steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police as a terrorist act and did not believe he acted alone.
Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle -- which bore the flag of the Islamic State group -- along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the city's famed French Quarter.
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