Birmingham man ‘heartbroken’ after New Orleans attack

Mr Hyde soon left the bar for his hotel where he began to search the internet to find out what had happened.

“I saw one post from someone saying, ‘there’s a truck that’s ploughed up Bourbon Street’ but I thought ‘that can’t be right’,” he said.

“I didn’t really know what was going on. We knew it wasn’t going to be good but we kind of thought, ‘OK, it’s a shooting, you know, someone has been shot’.

“Obviously that was not the case, they shut [the bar] down, the windows, locked the door.”

President Joe Biden said Jabbar, who drove the pick-up truck at high speed in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter, had a “desire to kill”.

Mr Hyde said he tried to sleep that night and had hoped the situation would become clearer in the morning.

The 44-year-old woke up to calls from loved ones, panicked to see if he was alive.

“My family were all checking to see if I was all right,” he added.