N.Y. Truck terror killed more foreigners than Americans.
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The victims

  • Five of those killed have been named as friends from Argentina who had travelled to New York as part of a larger group celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation from high school.
  • The Argentinian foreign ministry named them as Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi, all in their late 40s.
  • A sixth friend, Martin Ludovico Marro, was injured.
  • A Belgian woman was also among the dead. Belgium’s foreign minister, Didier Reynders, said she “was a woman from Roulers in western Flanders who was on a city trip with with her sister and her mother”, but she has not yet been named.
  • The two other people who died have not yet been identified.
  • Two children injured when the truck hit their school bus were not seriously hurt, New York governor Andrew Cuomo said.
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