The driver who rammed people on a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, which left eight dead and 11 injured, planned the attack for weeks, and it appears he had links to people being investigated for terrorism, authorities said on Wednesday. .
While the anti-terrorist investigators analyze if the attacker, identified as Sayfullo Saipov, had important links with terrorist organizations, it became evident that some of the people close to the attacker feared for years that he was becoming radicalized.
Saipov, 29, rented a van from a Home Depot in New Jersey at 2:06 p.m. Tuesday, after which he crossed over to Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge, according to the police time line. At 3:04 PM, he was spotted by a traffic camera driving the vehicle into the bicycle lane near the Hudson River, where authorities believe he wanted to hurt cyclists and bystanders on the road.
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