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.

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.

The man behind the deadly truck ramming in New Orleans travelled to Egypt and Canada before the New Year's Day attack, although it is not yet clear whether those trips were connected to the attack, the FBI said at a news conference on Sunday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans says the man behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street travelled to Ontario in July 2023.