A second device was later found inside a plastic bag blocks away, and it appeared to be a pressure cooker with wiring and a cellphone attached to it. Bomb techs from the FBI, Union County, & the New Jersey State Police have arrived on the scene and are now rendering the area safe. He says the Federal Bureau of Investigation and state police will decide how to remove the device. Bollwage said to expect more detonations. No one was injured in that blast, which is being investigated.
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Hours earlier on Saturday in New Jersey, a pipe bomb exploded in a trash can on the route of a Marine Corps run before the start of the race, causing no injuries but forcing its cancellation.
Authorities early on Monday were working to remove the other devices found in the backpack, Bollwage said.
Police did not immediately identify the Minnesota attacker, citing an ongoing investigation, although some local media reports gave his name and said he was an African-born junior college student. NJ Transit service was suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, but resumed later in the morning with delays expected.
Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor service is operating on a modified schedule.
The blast occurred around 8:30 p.m.at 23rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
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. New York’s emergency management department says that New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains are being held at New York Penn Station.
Police investigators look through the debris on the street in front of St. Vincent de Paul church where an explosion occurred on 23rd street between 6th and 7th Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in NY on Saturday.
The device in Elizabeth, a city south of Newark, had been left in a backpack placed in a trash can near a train station and a bar, Mayor Christian Bollwage told reporters. It wasn’t immediately known if the blast was part of a controlled explosion.
Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was working to disarm one of five devices found in the same bag, which was discovered in a trash can by two men around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, near the Elizabeth train station on New Jersey Transit’s Northeast Corridor rail line.
Late Update: At 11:48 FBI NY posted this message to twitter.
A powerful explosion rocked Manhattan’s popular Chelsea neighbourhood late on Saturday after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel detonated.
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Law enforcement had been examining a device near the Elizabeth train station.
