Washington, Sep 19 An explosive device inside a suspicious backpack found at Elizabeth train station in US’ New Jersey state, exploded on Monday while being examined, media reported.
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As the investigation continued into the blast that injured 29 people in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night, the FBI questioned five people early Monday following a vehicle stop in Brooklyn.
The overnight discovery follows a bomb blast in the heart of NY on Saturday night, which injured 29 people.
Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had responded earlier to the Elizabeth NJ Transit station after two homeless men found a suspicious bag there around 8:30 p.m. – devices in the bag were later determined to be explosive. It was one out of as many as five explosive devices found at the site, according to officials.
Authorities also were investigating a pipe bombing that occurred earlier on September 17 in New Jersey at the site of a five kilometer running race to benefit U.S. Marines. “They took the package out of the wastebasket because they thought it was of some value to them”, Bollwage said.
A man also stabbed nine people at a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall on Saturday too.
The paper also said, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, that federal authorities detained and were questioning five people with possible links to the NY bombing.
A pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey, on Saturday, about an hour from the Elizabeth train station. The authorities later found a second suspicious device a few blocks away and transported it to the Police Department’s firing range in Bronx, where they rendered it safe.
Mr Dean Fage, 49, was walking past police cars and officers at the Elizabeth train station when a bomb went off.
But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the act of blowing up a bomb in a crowded area of Manhattan “is obviously an act of terrorism”.
The explosion was in the busy Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan on Saturday evening, and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away. As the robot was doing so, one of the devices detonated.
In a statement, New Jersey Transit said that all service along the Northeast Corridor and New Jersey Coast lines had been suspended in both directions until further notice.
Officials haven’t revealed any details about the makeup of the pressure cooker device, except to say it had wires and a cellphone attached to it. While no one has yet been charged, police sources are telling United States media that the men had a number of weapons in the vehicle with them, and that they had driven over from Staten Island and, according to the New York Daily News, may have been heading to the airport.
“We want to get this guy in for questioning”, de Blasio said on CNN.
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Bill de Blasio says he could be armed and unsafe.
