Kelly said law enforcement will be looking for tips from the public, a point echoed by the mayor.
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The official wasn’t authorized to discuss details of the ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Five people were taken into custody for questioning, officials told United States media. “Do we think they’re related?” Likewise, the NYPD’s Chief of Department Carlos Gomez told reporters that they plan to beef up police presence in all five boroughs.
Mr Cuomo said: “Whoever placed these bombs – we will find them and they will be brought to justice”.
A bomb disposal team was on the scene on Sunday morning and alert notifications were sent out to mobile phones across Manhattan, cautioning those in the vicinity of 27th Street “to move away from the windows”, said Terret.
He pointed out that security outside the U.N.is the responsibility of the host country.
“We receive great cooperation and appreciate the support from the federal authorities and the NYPD throughout the year, and especially during the General Assembly to keep staff, delegates and visitors safe”, Dujarric told the AP.
Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that a bomb blast that rattled a lower Manhattan neighborhood a day earlier does not appear to have ties to a global terrorism network.
He said the second device appeared to be “similar in design” to the first, but did not provide any more details. The FBI detained five suspects that could have a connection to the September 17 bombing that injured 29 people.
Investigators are exploring the possibility that the explosions in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend are connected to the same bomber or bombers, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News Sunday. “But boy we are living in a time – we better get very tough, folks”.
“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. Was it a political motivation a personal motivation?.
“It could have been something personally motivated”.
“I turned the auto off and that’s when we heard the explosion”.
The discovery of the suspicious package comes after a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, on Saturday, forcing the cancellation of a military charity 5km run. One of the injured suffered a puncture wound that was considered serious.
While officials described all three as deliberate, criminal acts and were investigating them as potential “acts of terrorism”, they stopped short of characterising the motivation behind any of them until more evidence is uncovered.
Tannerite is often used in target shooting to mark a shot with a cloud of smoke and small explosion. Cuomo said 1,000 police from state forces and the National Guard would respond to the explosion.
Muin, who is with the Malaysian press entourage for the UNGA, said the hotel where Ahmad Zahid is staying in New York City, near Central Park, is located almost 40 blocks away from the scene of the explosion, at 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues in the bustling neighbourhood of Chelsea.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday there was still no indication that an explosion that injured 29 people in Manhattan on Saturday was linked to global terrorism, while investigators scoured the scene of the blast.
Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev used homemade pressure cooker devices in the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, killing three people and injuring more than 250 more.
According to ABC News, police are looking to speak with a man who was spotted in surveillance footage near both bomb locations.
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FBI official William Sweeney said federal investigators would be pouring through online traffic, individuals and organizations.
