The FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a crowd of revelers, an FBI official told reporters on Sunday.

Before allegedly driving a truck into New Orleans' crowded French Quarter on New Year's Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar visited the city at least twice and purportedly made trips to Canada and Egypt,

New Orleans truck attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled to Egypt and Canada in the summer of 2023, and investigators are examining whether the foreign trips were part of his preparations, an FBI official said.