NY mayor Bill de Blasio told CNN’s New Day that Rahami, a New Jersey resident of Afghan descent, is a naturalized us citizen.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami of Elizabeth, New Jersey, a 28-year-old naturalised USA citizen, was captured in Linden, New Jersey, about 20 miles (32 km) outside New York, Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage told reporters. He says was one was struck in a protective vest and the other in the hand.
The Afghan-born American wanted in connection with weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey was taken into custody on Monday following a shootout with police.
Mr Obama said the country is “extremely fortunate” nobody was killed in the bombings.
In addition, the Port Authority of NY and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has increased increased police patrols at all of the agency’s facilities.
“That’s the world we’re living in now”, New York City Police Commissioner James O’Neill said during a press conference Monday.
New York State Senator Marty Golden posted on Instagram that the arrests had “a possible connection to the bombing” in Chelsea.
Numerous people were injured in blast, and the motive, while reportedly not global terrorism, is still being investigated.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalised citizen from Afghanistan, could be armed and unsafe.
“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.
Authorities have questioned several people after a vehicle stop in New York City as they worked to determine whether there was a connection between several explosive devices found in two states in two days.
On Sunday, a team of five Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched an Uber driver’s vehicle that had been damaged in the Manhattan blast, ripping off the door panels inside as they examined it for evidence.
Hunt for Clues in “Intentional” Chelsea ExplosionGovernor Cuomo said that close to 1,000 additional New York State Police and National Guard troops will be dispatched to New York to guard transit stations and airports as a precuation following an explosion in Chelsea Saturday night.
“We have every reason to believe this was an act of terror”, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said after the arrest, which came less than 36 hours after a shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bomb similar to those used in the Boston Marathon bombing injured 29 people in New York’s Chelsea section, none seriously.
Old-fashioned flip phones were found on all three devices, law enforcement officials close to the investigation told NBC 4 NY.
A law enforcement official says the Afghan immigrant wanted in connection with explosions in New York City and New Jersey has been taken into custody following a shootout with police officers.
That blast, at 9:30 in the morning, was caused by an improvised device or pipe bomb left in a trash can along the planned route of a race to raise money for the US Marine Corps. No one was injured.
A suspicious backpack in a bin containing “wires and a pipe” was discovered by two men who reported it to police headquarters.
Obama added that investigators saw “no connection” at this moment between the bombings in New Jersey and NY and a stabbing in Minnesota. The second device, described by the same official as a pressure cooker with wires and a cellphone attached to it, was removed early Sunday by a bomb squad robot and New York City police blew it up in a controlled explosion Sunday evening, authorities said. That device has been removed for examination by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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The newspaper also said that one person of interest had been identified via surveillance footage, but it was not clear if he was one of the five taken into custody.
