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.
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Saturday night’s blast in the bustling Chelsea neighborhood injured 29 people, and another unexploded device made out of pressure cooker was found several blocks away.
Late Sunday night the FBI confirmed in a statement that law enforcement officers had stopped a auto and detained five people for questioning in the investigation.
Police have detained Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalised citizen of Afghan descent, who they believe is behind last Saturday’s explosion in NY that injured 29 people. Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said the break in the case came late Monday morning, when the owner of a bar reported someone asleep in his doorway.
The news agency Reuters quoted two U.S. unnamed officials as saying investigators believed there were more people involved than just Rahami. Twenty-nine people were injured in the blast that occurred on West 23rd Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday night.
East Coast passenger-rail agencies have stepped up security forces after this weekend’s bombings in New York City and New Jersey.
Cell phones were discovered at the site of both bombings. Also Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded about an hour from the Elizabeth train station in Seaside Park, New Jersey, forcing the cancellation of a military charity 5K run.
ELIZABETH, N.J. A suspicious device found in a trash can near a train station exploded early Monday as a bomb squad was attempting to disarm it with a robot, officials said.
He said the Union County bomb squad’s robotic device indicated the package could be a live bomb, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and state police will decide how to remove the device. The fire department said 29 people were hurt by the blast, but none of the injuries were life-threatening and all 29 people were released from area hospitals by Sunday morning. The governor of NY now says it looks like Manhattan bombing could be act of terrorism with foreign connection.
Cuomo said the investigation is ongoing, and he “wouldn’t be surprised if it zeroes in on a particular individual, today even”, and he “wouldn’t be surprised if we found a foreign connection to the act”.
Around the time Rahami was taken into custody, President Barack Obama was in NY on a previously scheduled visit for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, and said it was “extremely fortunate” nobody was killed in the bombings.
The Chelsea explosion left many rattled in a city that had marked the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a week earlier and that was schedule to hold a United Nations meeting Monday to address the refugee crisis in Syria. The New Jersey Transit line was part suspended Monday after the incident.
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