Twenty-eight people were injured when a vehicle ploughed into a crowd watching a mardi gras event in New Orleans, in the US State of Louisiana last night. 
The utility vehicle, travelling along the side of the street open to traffic along the Mid-City Krewe of Endymion parade route, struck three other vehicles, including a garbage truck, before veering onto the median strip where a crowd of people stood watching the procession, according to New Orleans police. 
Twenty-eight people were injured, with five victims in serious condition, the (ABC) reported Sunday. 
Police Chief Michael Harrison said there was a suspect in custody and while he did not strictly rule out terrorism as a motive, he said police suspected the driver was "highly intoxicated". 
Mayor Mitch Landrieu in a statement referred to the suspect as a "drunk driver". 
The Endymion parade incident was not the only one to mar mardi gras festivities in New Orleans. 
Earlier in the day, someone's gun went off accidentally in a portable toilet along the route of another, smaller parade, leaving one person wounded, police said. 

Source: QNA