There was no sign that the explosion was caused by a natural gas explosion, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at the press conference.
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The vehicle was stopped around 21:30 heading east on the Belt Parkway from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which connects the NY city boroughs Brooklyn and Staten Island. Rahami was taken to the hospital. “And there’s no better example of that than the people of NY and New Jersey”, the president said. “One of our police officers went to investigate and to wake him up, and realized that he was [Rahami], the suspect that had been being sought in the bombings”, the mayor told WABC. “I think that saved his life”.
NEW YORK – FBI agents pulled over a vehicle on a highway in Brooklyn on Sunday night and were questioning its occupants in connection with the investigation into the weekend New York City bombing that injured 29 people, authorities said.
Evangelist Franklin Graham responded to explosions in New York City and New Jersey and a stabbing incident at a Minnesota mall, saying the next president “needs to be someone who is tough on terrorism”.
He said after the news about the explosion in Chelsea, New York brokeout, the embassy immediately contacted the Filipino community in Manhattan to inquire if their relatives or friends had been reported hurt in the blast and the initial findings is negative. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents at the scene of Saturday night’s explosion in Manhattan.
The Star Tribune of Minneapolis identified the attacker as 22-year-old Dahir A. Adan, whose family is Somali and had lived in the USA for 15 years.
A pipe bomb also exploded Saturday in a New Jersey shore town ahead of a 5K.
A deafening roar and powerful shock rocked Manhattan’s popular Chelsea neighbourhood late on Saturday after a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded.
Since the attack New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was no “credible threat” against the area from “any terror organisation”. During this time, the exit staircase at the northeast corner of 23th Street and 7th Avenue remains closed.
Up to five devices have been found in a backpack in a waste basket in Elizabeth, New Jersey, according to Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage.
We did a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the investigation. The race was cancelled and no one was injured.
Rahami lived with his family on a busy street a few miles from the Newark airport.
Train passengers reported being stuck on Amtrak and NJ Transit trains for hours on Sunday night, while some trains moved in reverse to let passengers off at other stations.
Since the backpacks were located, police have raided a home in nearby New Jersey. The FBI’s NY field office confirmed a traffic stop had been conducted, but added that no charges had been made.
Five people were taken into custody for questioning, officials told U.S. media.
The bombing has been called a terrorist act by officials who say that so far there is no evidence of a connection to worldwide terrorism.
“When you see the amount of damage, we were really very lucky there were no fatalities”, Cuomo said after touring the blast site on Sunday according to the USA Today. “I believe it was an act of terrorism”, Cuomo said. He also urged New Yorkers to not give in to fear. “No group had taken accountability”.
“We will find who planted these explosives and they will be punished”.
“We need to get this guy in right away”, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed on CNN.
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Saturday night’s blast in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people, and another unexploded device made out of pressure cooker was found several blocks away.
