United States: Authorities found bomb-making materials at an Airbnb in New Orleans as they investigate a possible connection to the truck attack on Bourbon Street that killed at least 15 people and injured over 30 others during New Year’s celebrations. A small fire also broke out at the Airbnb early Wednesday morning on Mandeville Street in the St. Roch neighborhood. 

One resident clambered out of the windows for the roof of his house to which the New Orleans Fire Department had to evacuate mostly 30 others from neighboring buildings and immediately notified the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, FOX 8 said.  

The outlet was told by sources that bomb-making material was found at the said property.  

As reported by the Fox News, the FBI and the ATF have indeed raided that house on Mandeville Street according to Thursday’s FBI news conference and “that location is being searched for possible evidence.” Two laptops were seized at that address, the FBI stated, and further the police were in the process of analyzing three other cell phones belonging to the now-dead suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar.  

At Thursday’s news conference, ATF stated that the Mandeville address is still pending and the ATF National Response Team – consisting of certified fire investigators, explosives specialists, fire engineers, and electrical engineers – were still working other leads to help determine how the fire began the morning of the attack throughout town on Bourbon Street.  

Fox News Digital contacted the listed owner of the Airbnb rental; however, they have not receive a response at the time of this writing.  

‘They said they discovered the ingredients used in making bombs at the yellow house and wanted the bomb squad to check them,’ a neighbor, Bob Koenig, said to FOX 8 on Wednesday as the shooting took place. 

After Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. citizen from Texas, drove a Ford pick-up truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street at approximately 3:At 15 a.m. local time New Year’s Day, FBI started investigating the occurrence as an act of terrorism. 

 Besides driving the car into the crowd, Jabbar got out of the car and began to shoot at the police; in response, they fired at the suspect, and the man was dead on the scene, the bureau said.  

Weapons, an ISIS flag and a possible IED were also found in the car, as well as possibly other IEDs in the French Quarter, the FBI said.