The bomb went off at approximately 12:40 a.m. this morning.
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The discovery came after a small pipe bomb exploded in the New Jersey town of Seaside Park on Saturday morning, shortly before a charity run for U.S. marines and sailors.
Nine people were also wounded Saturday night in a stabbing attack at a mall in the northern USA state of Minnesota.
Authorities have not said publicly that they have determined any link between the incidents, or a possible motive, and have not made public any details of suspects being sought.
Investigators were probing possible links between the attacks, which came as world leaders begin converging on NY for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
As for how investigators zeroed in on him as a suspect, three law enforcement officials said the clues included a fingerprint lifted from one of the NY sites and “clear as day” surveillance video from the bombing scene that helped identify Rahami.
Cuomo, in a separate interview on MSNBC, said: “Today’s information suggests it may be foreign related but we’ll see where it goes”. But he also stressed the lack of global terror link was preliminary.
The address of a home being searched by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Elizabeth, New Jersey, is linked to a person with a similar name.
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No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said.
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 vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
FBI Bomb Squad is on scene and continuing the investigation at the train station in Midtown Elizabeth.
Ahmad Khan Rahami- the same man wanted in connection with Saturday’s bombing in NY – has been arrested in connection with the explosion in New Jersey. Police also said that they were unlikely to have been organized by an worldwide group, despite a claim by Islamic State that it was responsible for the stabbing in Minnesota. The men had reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of the package, Bollwage said.
“Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation”.
What we don’t know: Whether it’s part of a weekend of co-ordinated attacks.
The attack has been the third explosion to rock the USA just a week after the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center.
Stepped-up security across the city is common as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is underway.
NY lauds itself as the safest big city in America.
Officials have said that all attacks over the weekend were deliberate and that they were investigating them as potential acts of terrorism, but did not provide any additional details.
Naturally, people wondered if these three events could be connected to a single terrorist source.
Police in Chelsea on Saturday night. The municipality directly borders one of the busiest airports in the country and sits just across a narrow body of water from the New York City border. “We believe they did the right thing”.
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“We defy them by going about our lives in the normal way”.
