‘A Tragedy That Defies Understanding’: Deadly Car Ramming at NY Concert Investigated as Terrorism

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Federal agents and police in Upstate New York are investigating a deadly crash early Monday outside of a concert venue as a case of potential terrorism.

Two people died in Rochester just after midnight when a man driving a rented Ford Explorer rammed into another vehicle and also struck a number of pedestrians, New York’s WABC-TV reported.

The crash caused a massive fire outside the city’s Kodak Center that took firefighters roughly an hour to put out.

Investigators told the outlet the Ford was packed with at least a dozen gas cans.

At approximately 12:50 a.m., as 1,000 people left the venue, the man behind the wheel of the Ford struck an Uber driver in a Mitsubishi Outlander.

Both vehicles then struck several pedestrians while narrowly missing others.

Two people in the back of the Mitsubishi were killed, while the driver was hospitalized and is expected to survive.

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