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		</div><p>A man is being investigated for suspected drink-driving after a pick-up truck slammed into a crowd watching a Mardi Gras weekend parade in New Orleans&#8217; Mid-City section, injuring 28 people including children and a police officer.</p>
<p>Asked whether terrorism was suspected, police chief Michael Harrison did not say &#8220;No&#8221;, but added that it looked like a case of driving while intoxicated.</p>
<p>&#8220;We suspect that that subject was highly intoxicated,&#8221; he said.<br />
Twenty-one people were taken to hospital after the crash, five of them in a &#8220;guarded&#8221; condition.</p>
<p>The victims&#8217; ages ranged from three or four to people in their 30s and 40s, said city emergency services director Dr Jeff Elder.</p>
<p>Mr Harrison said the injured police officer was undergoing tests and in &#8220;good spirits&#8221;.<br />
One woman at the scene told The New Orleans Advocate that a truck whisked by her just feet away.<br />
Carrie Kinsella said: &#8220;I felt a rush, it was so fast.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kourtney McKinnis, 20, told the Advocate that the driver of the truck seemed almost unaware of what he had just done.</p>
<p>The accident came during one of the busiest nights of Mardi Gras when thousands of people throng the streets of Mid-City to watch the elaborate floats and clamour to catch beads and trinkets tossed from riders.</p>
<p>The accident scene was cordoned off with police barricades.</p>
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