Five Argentine citizens were killed and another injured Tuesday in the New York truck attack that killed a total of eight people.

The Argentine victims were from the city of Rosario, and were visiting New York for a school reunion, the Foreign Ministry said.

Eleven others were seriously hurt when the truck driver struck in broad daylight just blocks from the 9/11 Memorial, on the West Side of Lower Manhattan, close to schools as children and their parents geared up to celebrate Halloween.