The alleged perpetrator of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in New York planned it for weeks, according to police, and appeared to “have followed almost exactly to a T the instructions that Isis has put on its social media channels”.
Sayfullo Saipov, the suspected driver of a pick-up truck that ploughed through pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path in lower Manhattan, had never been investigated by either the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the New York police intelligence unit, John Miller, deputy commissioner of the NYPD, said at a news conference on Wednesday.
“But it appears he will have some connectivity to individuals who were the subject of investigations,” he said. The attack, which police described as an isolated incident, killed eight people.