U.N. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Sunday that security inside the complex “is being assessed on a constant basis”.
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In St. Cloud, Minnesota, police said multiple people were injured at a shopping mall Saturday evening in an attack that possibly involved both a shooting and stabbing. They have been treated and released from a hospital.
The law enforcement official also said that the explosion appeared to have come from a construction toolbox in front of a building. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation.
Twenty-nine people were injured in an explosion in the Chelsea area of Manhattan on Saturday night.
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Police officers and federal agents were scouring the streets with flashlights, robots and dogs early Sunday to ensure there were no other devices in the area.
The explosion appears to have taken place in a dumpster.
“Almost anybody could have fabricated these bombs and used cellphones as timed detonators”, said another US official familiar with the inquiry. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it is an intentional act but not related to terrorism.
Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.
“Tonight, New York City experienced a very bad incident”, de Blasio said at a news conference near the scene in Chelsea. But there was no claim of responsibility and investigators were still scrambling to determine a clear connection between the blast and the un-exploded pressure cooker bomb found afterwards. The NYPD tweeted at about 2:24 a.m. ET Sunday that, the “suspicious device on West 27 Street” had been safely removed by the bomb squad.
A photograph shared by New York’s local NY1 television station showed shattered glass in a doorway, apparently caused by the blast.
Authorities say there was no structural damage from the blast.
A possible secondary device was located a few blocks away on 27th Street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, the NYPD Special Operations Division said.
New Yorkers are on edge this weekend after an explosion that rocked a Manhattan neighborhood Saturday night was deemed an “intentional act” by the city’s mayor.
“There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection”, de Blasio said. City officials said police located the explosive device in the street next to a trash bin.
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Details of the 8:30 p.m. ET incident in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan were still emerging throughout the Colorado event and into the morning hours on the East Coast. He cautioned that authorities had just begun their investigation into the blast.
