“I want to be very clear that this individual could be armed and risky”, Mayor Bill de Blasio of NY said on Monday “Anyone seeing him should call 911 immediately”.
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“We want to get this guy in for questioning”, de Blasio said on CNN.
This is the man police are seeking in connection with the terror bombing that struck 23rd Street in Manhattan on Saturday, as well as, according to multiple media reports, the apparent bomb on 27th Street that did not go off and the one that did in New Jersey earlier that day.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was arrested after firing shots in Linden, New Jersey, close to where police had accidentally detonated one of his five bombs. One of the devices exploded as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, No one was injured.
Rahami is a USA citizen originally from Afghanistan.
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio spoke out as soon as Ahmad was identified as the suspect, declaring his confidence in the FBI’s ability to locate the suspected bomber upon pinpointing him.
Meanwhile, New York governor Andrew Cuomo, having previously ruled out a link between the Manhattan bombing and worldwide terrorism, has now acknowledged “it may be foreign related”. Amtrak trains heading to NY were held in Trenton early Monday.
The weekend saw a number of incidents, including bomb explosions in NY and New Jersey, as well as a mass stabbing in Minnesota.
Earlier at West Point, police were searching for a driver who entered the premises and looks like Ahmad Khan Rahami, a man linked to three bombings in NY and New Jersey.
The explosive device in Chelsea was described as a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel. His last know address is in Elizabeth, N.J.
Cuomo said the investigation is ongoing, and “I wouldn’t be surprised if it zeroes in on a particular individual, today even”, and that he “wouldn’t be surprised if we found a foreign connection to the act”.
Police also discovered an explosive device in Manhattan shortly after and just a few blocks north of the explosion in the city’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. An unexploded pressure-cooker device was also found four blocks away and was being analyzed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both said Monday that appears to be changing.
Update 11.30am: The man believed to be behind the Manhattan bomb blasts has now been taken into custody, according to law enforcement officials.
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NY police believe they have found the man behind the recent East Coast bombings.
