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(NewsNation) — Improvided explosive devices, oregon IEDs, were among the weapons recovered successful the conveyance of the fishy successful the onslaught that killed 15 people and injured 30 others successful New Orleans connected New Year's Day.
IEDs are “homemade bomb(s) and/or destructive devices to destroy, incapacitate, harass oregon distract," according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Examples see tiny tube bombs which tin beryllium made to beryllium much blase successful bid to origin a batch of harm and nonaccomplishment of life.
Other attacks that utilized IEDs see the Oklahoma City bombing successful 1995, the Olympic Park bombing successful 1996 and the London bombings successful 2005.
Police fishy Shamsud-Din Jabbar arsenic the idiosyncratic liable for what the FBI has deemed a "terrorist attack" aft allegedly driving his conveyance into a assemblage connected the tourist-heavy Bourbon Street aboriginal Wednesday morning.
Law enforcement is inactive searching the country for improvised explosive devices, according to the FBI. Other imaginable IEDs were besides located successful the French Quarter.
