Police spokesman J. Peter Donald said He says several people were taken to hospitals with injuries.
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The mayor said there is no immediate indication the blast is related to an earlier explosion in Seaside Park in New Jersey. None of the injuries appeared to be life-threatening, the New York City Fire Department said.
The New York Fire Department said the blast about 8.30pm was from an explosive device in the fashionable downtown Chelsea district of Manhattan.
The NYPD reportedly used the code 10-33 to refer to the explosion, which, according to one local reporter, indicates that they believe that a “device”, in other words a bomb, was the cause of the explosion.
No details about the extent of damage were immediately available.
Mr Johnson says the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security counter-terrorism officials are on the scene.
Authorities here have found an explosive device near the site of a Saturday night blast that injured more than two dozen people in the Chelsea neighborhood.
“New Yorkers will not be intimidated”, de Blasio said. She said the restaurant went quiet.
The explosion occurred around 8:30 p.m.
Except that it was a bomb, just like the pipebomb that went off in Seaside Springs, New Jersey, at a Marine charity race earlier on Saturday.
“The area around the explosion site is being treated as a crime scene”, the police commissioner said. Police say that a secondary device was reported on 27th Street.
“Just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows exactly what’s going on, but, boy we are really in a time”.
President Obama has been briefed on the situation, according to a White House official.
CNN, citing law enforcement sources, reported that it appeared to be a pressure cooker with wires attached to it and connected to what resembled a cell phone. But he said there was no specific and credible terror threat against New York City. People blocks from the blast felt it, heard it, and came out to see what had happened. Eastern time. The New York Police Department’s bomb squad and counterterrorism units responded to the scene, along with other officers and emergency medical services.
Police in St. Cloud, Minnesota, are investigating reports of multiple injuries at a mall possibly involving both shooting and stabbing.
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“I’ll have more to say about it when we actually know the facts”, she added.
