The FBI issued a statement: There was a suspicious package with multiple improvised explosive devices this evening at the Elizabeth Train Station in NJ.
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Bollwage said two men called police and reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of a package after finding it around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Authorities continued to work on disarming the other devices.
Rahami, a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan, is considered armed and risky, officials said Monday morning.
NJ Transit service was suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at New York Penn Station, officials said, while New York-bound Amtrak trains were being held in Trenton.
Tensions across the NY region were heightened on Sunday (Sept 18) night after a law enforcement official confirmed that pipe bombs had been found near the train station here. Also on Saturday, a pipe bomb went off before a New Jersey charity run at a seashore resort an hour away from the Elizabeth train station.
Nine persons were also injured on Saturday night in a stabbing attack at a mall in the U.S. state of Minnesota.
Another official told newsmen that it was a controlled device blast, while adding four other explosive devices were also present inside the package. Bollwage said to expect more detonations.
After noticing “wires and a pipe”, they alerted local police. No one was injured.
Officials in NY said Sunday they were still trying to determine who was behind an explosion that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood and what the motivation was.
Late on Saturday, a powerful explosion rocked Manhattan’s popular Chelsea neighborhood when a pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel detonated.
“They looked like they were two gentlemen just strolling up and down Seventh Avenue, at the time”, Boyce said.
None of the five people had been charged, and the investigation was ongoing, authorities told NBC News. More than two dozen people were injured in the second blast.
The police then called a bomb squad who sent a drone to examine the package further.
A second bomb was uncovered by police four blocks away and defused safely, before being sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Virginia for forensic examination.
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The incidents were being investigated as potential acts of terrorism, authorities said.
