A Louisiana mall was the site of an apparent false alarm about an active shooter just two days after the carnage in New Orleans.

A Lafayette Police spokesman confirmed to the Acadiana Advocate that the department was responding to an “active incident” at the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette early Thursday evening.

According to the Advocate, several Facebook users had posted that an active shooter was inside while others said people were being locked down in stores and evacuated from the mall.

However Sgt. Matthew Benoit, a department public information officer, said in a later statement that while the department had responded to the calls, no shots had been fired and there had been no injuries.

The department was conducting an interior sweep of the building, he added.

The call came just two days after an Islamic State-inspired lone wolf ran a truck into a crowd of New Year’s partiers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and wounding dozens of others.

• Victor Morton can be reached at vmorton@washingtontimes.com.