NEW YORK (AP) – Two sets of scavengers played roles in the investigation of the bombing rampage that terrorized people in New York and New Jersey over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
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“We have to look at every possibility here”, Mayor de Blasio said on MSNBC.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Monday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was executing a search warrant, Mayor Christian Bollwage told CNN earlier.
On Monday, a device found in a backpack near the Elizabeth train station exploded while a bomb squad robot was trying to disarm it, authorities said.
The explosion in the New York’s popular Chelsea neighborhood late on Saturday involved a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel.
“That’s what worries us: Was this some kind of test run, not just of the devices, but also of the surveillance in NY and the response?” the official said.
According to sources, the blast went off as a bomb robot was examining a device inside the package under the train tracks at around 12:40a.m. Sources said that police suspect that there may be more bombs inside the package.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had said Sunday that there was no evidence to suggest that the bombing was related to worldwide terrorism, but he appeared to walk that back Monday.
“The evidence might suggest a foreign connection”, Cuomo said in television interviews on Monday morning. A similar bomb went off in a garbage can in the Jersey shore town of Seaside Park Saturday morning.
No one was injured in the other blasts.
In the block-by-block search after the Saturday’s explosion, two former state troopers found a possible secondary device a few blocks away on 27th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, said James O’Neill, the city’s police commissioner.
Northeast Corridor and New Jersey Coastline trains resumed regular weekday service at 5:30 a.m. Monday after police activity cleared in Elizabeth, but passengers should expect delays, according to a New Jersey Transit alert.
The explosion was the second in New Jersey since yesterday. According to New York Daily News, investigators believed the suspects may have been trying to flee the area by auto or plane. The home was roughly one mile from the site where investigators found five suspicious devices, one of which exploded, outside a train station.
There was no immediate report of injuries or damage.
The complaints prompted the Elizabeth City Council several years ago to adopt an ordinance requiring the chicken restaurant to close at 10 p.m., Bollwage said. He said two officers were shot and that Rahami was wounded and taken by ambulance to a local hospital.
New Jersey Transit service was suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at New York Penn Station, officials said.
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Later that night, a bomb in a pressure cooker exploded in Chelsea, injuring 29. The men had reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package, Bollwage said.
