Clinton condemns what she calls “apparent terrorist attacks”

“A personal motivation? We do not know”, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

NY went on full alert, deploying almost 1,000 extra state police and National Guardsmen to airports, bus terminals and subway stations as President Barack Obama arrived in the city ahead of Tuesday’s opening of the UN General Assembly.

Although there were no fatalities, the 29 injury casualties, one of them serious, and the discovery a short time later of an unexploded pressure cooker bomb nearby, was a grim reminder of the terrorist attacks the city has repeatedly suffered, mostly at the hands of elements from Pakistan. On Saturday, Republican Donald Trump said following the NY blast: “We better get very tough, folks”.

A claim of responsibility is no guarantee that the terror group directed or even inspired the attack, and authorities said they were still exploring a precise motive. “It was done to terrorize the people in New Jersey“.

“I must tell you that just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows what’s going on”, Trump said, minutes after stepping off his plane during a rally at an airport hangar in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Clinton was referring to a pipe bomb that exploded in a New Jersey shore town and reports of a shooting and the stabbings of eight people at a Minnesota mall. Police Commissioner James O’Neill, who took office on Saturday, told reporters that the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device that went off on 23rd Street and that its remnants were sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory.

“We don’t believe at this time that there’s any evidence connecting [the Jersey Shore bombing] to the attacks in NY or Minnesota”, Christie said in an interview Sunday with CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union”.

An off-duty police officer shot and killed the Minnesota attacker. They want people who speak their minds. “A bomb exploding in NY is obviously an act of terrorism, but it’s not linked to worldwide terrorism”.

Investigators at the FBI’s lab in Quantico, Virginia, were set to look to see if the three devices in the NY area had a common design, although a US official familiar with the inquiry said that would not be proof in itself the attacks were linked. “There are instructions all over the internet, and the crudity, positioning, and relative ineffectiveness of these does not suggest that a more sophisticated group played any role in this”. He said the FBI was leading the investigation along with the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies.

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Reuters was not immediately able to verify the Amaq assertion.