Authorities say a person has been struck by a float and fatally injured during one of the iconic parades of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans.
It was the second death in days to mar this year's Carnival festivities.
A city agency tasked with emergency preparedness tweeted online that the death occurred Saturday night on a downtown New Orleans route of the iconic Krewe of Endymion parade.
It gave no immediate details about what happened or the identity of the person.
The city agency's emergency preparedness site online, NOLA Ready, also said the Endymion parade was stopped after the accident.
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