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New Orleans police and federal agents investigate a suspected terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. Picture: Chris Granger/The New Orleans Advocate via AP

Investigators in New Orleans were searching on Thursday for what motivated a US army veteran flying an ISIS flag from his truck to plough into a crowd of New Year's revellers, killing 15 people and injuring 30 more before dying in a shootout with police.

The probe was focused on whether the suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, had help in planning the deadly attack on a city that will host the NFL Super Bowl next month.