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Article snippet: Eight people were killed on Tuesday, and 12 injured when a rented pickup truck plowed down a bike lane that runs along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan, officials said. The pickup smashed into a school bus before the driver, Sayfullo Saipov, a New Jersey truck driver who immigrated from Uzbekistan, jumped out and was shot by a police officer, the authorities said. Law enforcement officials said that as Mr. Saipov ran from the truck, he was heard yelling, “God is great” in Arabic. • Officials called it a terrorist attack, but Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a briefing, “There’s no evidence that suggests a wider plot or a wider scheme.” He said the episode was “the action of one individual who meant to cause pain and harm and probably death, and the resulting terror.” The New York police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, added, “This incident is over.” • The driver was brought down by Officer Ryan Nash, who fired nine bullets, two of which struck Mr. Saipov. Mr. Nash and three other officers were in the area because they had been called to Stuyvesant High School, where a student was threatening suicide in the nurses’ office, according to a police source. Mr. Saipov, 29, who was shot in the abdomen, is being treated at Bellevue Hospital Center, where he has given interviews to the police, according to the authorities. They did not disclose what was said. The authorities said he came to the United States in 2010 and was a permanent legal resident. Three officials... Link to the full article to read more