The Uzbek national who plowed through a New York bicycle path, killing eight people, was associated with Islamic State group but "radicalized domestically," the state's governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.

The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, was shot by police at the end of the rampage in lower Manhattan Tuesday but was expected to recover from his wounds.

"He's a depraved coward is what he is, and he was associated with ISIS, and he was radicalized domestically, and he's a depraved coward," Cuomo said in an interview with CNN.

source: AFP