“It’s not in a highly congested area”, Bollwage told CNN.
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Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said it was one of five separate devices inside the bag, which was sitting inside a garbage can next to a trestle near the station.
He said the devices didn’t appear to have a timer or a mobile phone on them to activate them remotely.
It was subsequently detonated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation bomb squad, and all train traffic was suspended.
There was no immediate report of injuries or damage. “I don’t know what they are made up of but they are going to have to be removed and all the fragments from the other pieces are going to have to be picked up so the FBI can investigate this fully”.
New Yorkers will see an increased police presence around the city, de Blasio said.
USA authorities said the motive of all three attacks was unclear, but officials quickly identified them as terror-related.
Police at the scene of an explosion on West 23rd Street, New York, September 18. None of the five people had been charged, and the investigation was ongoing.
Nine people were also wounded Saturday night in a stabbing attack at a mall in the northern USA state of Minnesota. About 2,400 passengers were on its trains on the Northeast Corridor when service was shut down late Sunday. The New Jersey race was cancelled and no-one was injured.
The apparent pipe bomb exploded as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, officials said. The mayor said the package hasn’t been removed. “We’re not taking any options off the table”.
“A bomb going off is generically a terrorist activity”, said Cuomo, who ordered 1,000 New York State Police and National Guard members deployed across the city.
Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said that the device exploded shortly after 12:30 a.m. Monday. “Was it a political motivation? We do not know that yet”.
Authorities converged on the apartment just before 6 a.m. He said the unexploded pressure cooker device appeared “similar in design” to the first bomb, but did not provide details.
Several law enforcement officials told NBC News that they are concerned that an active terrorism cell with multiple players could be at work in the New York-New Jersey area.
“We do not believe those two are involved”, the mayor said. Authorities were trying to determine if they were connected.
The device was transported to the NYPD Bomb Squad facility at Rodman’s Neck Range in the Bronx.
NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe.
One New Yorker, Anthony Stanhope, was in his apartment when the blast went off nearby. “It took me an hour and a half before I could hear again”.
“The executor of the stabbing attacks in Minnesota yesterday was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the operation in response to calls to target the citizens of countries belonging to the crusader coalition”, the Amaq news agency said.
Elizabeth is located about 16 miles southwest of New York City.
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Today is the start of the United Nations General Assembly when dozens of world leaders are in NY, further adding to the tension.
