Saturday night’s blast wounded 29 people – all of them were released from hospitals by the next morning.
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Federal authorities are searching for Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year old naturalized US citizen from New Jersey, for his possible role in the bombing of a Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan.
Sunday night: At a train station in Elizabeth, N.J., Federal Bureau of Investigation technicians working on one of five bombs in a backpack that was initially discovered in a trash can detonate the bomb.
The arrest came just hours after police issued a bulletin and photo of Rahami, a naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan with an address in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
“We need to get this guy in right away”, de Blasio said on CNN.
Authorities in New Jersey have found up to five bombs in a backpack – less than 48 hours after a pair of explosions in New York City and Seaside, New Jersey.
One of the five devices found at the Elizabeth train station exploded while a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it. A police officer went to investigate and recognized the man as Rahami, police and the mayor said.
“I want New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that NY is up and running and we’re doing everything that we need to do”, he said.
Crime scene investigators work at the scene of Saturday’s explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016. No one was injured as the road was empty at the time, but the event was cancelled. The discovery of Tannerite may be important as authorities probe whether the two New York City devices and the pipe bomb at the Jersey shore are connected. Officials also said they have launched a raid on the man’s Elizabeth, N.J. home.
Police are searching for a 28-year-old Afghan-born New Jersey resident they believe is behind a bombing this weekend in NY. Both said Monday that appears to be changing.
“This is someone who was likely involved in one way or another” with the Chelsea bombing, de Blasio said.
“The investigation is moving rapidly”, President Obama said Monday during a news conference in NY, where he is attending this week’s U.N. General Assembly. Authorities said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg.
On Sunday night, FBI agents in Brooklyn stopped “a vehicle of interest” in the investigation of the Manhattan explosion, according to FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser.
Summing up where things stand, De Blasio said he expects new developments Monday.
She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that five people in the auto were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
Investigators found similarities between the explosives used in both states, according to multiple law enforcement officials, but authorities said they have not concluded the incidents are linked.
The pipe bomb that exploded Saturday in Seaside Park went off before a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.
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It is believed that Rahami left his phone at one of the pressure cooker bombs – allowing cops to track him down. No one was hurt.
