The FBI had also launched a raid at a building in Elizabeth, New Jersey Monday morning, hours after investigators uncovered five suspicious devices – one of which exploded – near a train station in that city.
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Clinton called the attacks “a serious challenge” that the country can meet in “concert with our values”. Typically, Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, had fewer compunctions.
A person of interest in the weekend bombings in a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan.
Authorities said Sunday night that surveillance video shows what appears to be the same person moving bombs into place at the site of the NY explosion, and a few blocks north. He spoke in a phone interview Monday.
Andrew Cuomo insisted the suspect had no foreign connections. His campaign has declined to say.
The FBI bomb squad is also on the scene.
He said: “They’re making violence possible”.
Citing the FBI, New Jersey State Police said Monday that the bombs in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected.
Three attacks carried out in the United States on a single day – a NY bombing, a Minnesota mass stabbing and a New Jersey pipe bomb blast – were under investigation Sunday for potential terror links.
The FBI wrote on its website: ‘The FBI is asking for assistance in locating Ahmad Khan Rahami. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The five people detained up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Sunday night on the Belt Parkway may be relatives of the suspect. Fortunately, no one was injured in the blast.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that investigators so far have not found any connection to worldwide terrorist groups, and there is no further immediate threat to the city.
The White House said President Barack Obama was apprised of the explosion.
President Barack Obama, who arrived in New York City on Sunday, is scheduled to speak at the 71st session of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, his final address to the chamber as the USA president.
The Fire Department says the blast was reported shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday on West 23rd Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.
Another team of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents is on the scene in New Jersey where a backpack filled with suspicious devices has shut down train service. “There is no link at this time at this preliminary stage to global terrorism”, he said, adding that police will consider any motive, terroristic, political or personal.
There is no indication whether the latest incident in Elizabeth is connected to the bombing in a New York City neighborhood that injured 29 people and the explosion from a garbage can near a charity run in New Jersey.
Authorities were looking for Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan with an address in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
He said “we’re going to go back to work tomorrow just like we do on any Monday morning”.
On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to worldwide terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that.
Homemade pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260. All have been released from a hospital.
There was no claim for the bombings in Manhattan or New Jersey, but a militant-linked news agency, Amaq, claimed that an IS “soldier” carried out the Minnesota stabbings.
LESS than a week after New York City commemorated the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, the city is once again adjusting to an attack.
“He could be armed and unsafe”, de Blasio said, warning that residents should be vigilant and report sightings to authorities.
After the bombing in the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City, Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill deBlasio went to great lengths to assure New Yorkers that global terrorism was not involved. A second pressure cooker device found four blocks away was disarmed Sunday. The official says in the NY incident, the device that exploded had residue from an explosive called Tannerite.
Trains travelling through the station in Elizabeth, NJ, were suspended and homes and businesses evacuated after the suspicious package was found on the tracks, according to CBS local media. However passengers should expect delays.
Mayor Chris Bollwage said the Union County Bomb Squad determined it could be a bomb.
No information about injuries or about the extent of the damage was immediately available.
“Almost anybody could have fabricated these bombs and used cellphones as timed detonators”, said the official.
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The blast occurred around 8:30 p.m.at 23rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues.
