Two police officers were also wounded in the shootout which took place in Linden, New Jersey.
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Elizabeth’s mayor, J. Christian Bollwage, told the New York Times that it’s unclear whether or not the town of Elizabeth was targeted and that “it is very possible that someone was trying to get rid of a package, as opposed to setting it off”. “The other devices, I don’t know what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and State Police are doing at this moment, but they are trying to remove them in a secure way to they can preserve them for evidence”. After cordoning off the area, a bomb squad used a robot to cut a wire to try to disable the device, but inadvertently set off an explosion, he said.
Two men had reported seeing wires and a pipe coming out of a package after finding it at the train station around 8:30 p.m. Sunday. 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.
Amtrak was operating on a modified schedule.
But before they walked away, they removed a pressure cooker that had been concealed inside it, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said.
A separate NY Times story adds this detail, “The mayor said around 3 a.m. Monday that one robot was destroyed and another had a mechanical arm blown off”. I know there are other devices. Amtrak service is now suspended in Elizabeth as a precaution.
“They walked underneath the train trestle, saw the wires and pipes inside the bag inside the bag, dropped it immediately, walked around the corner to police headquarters, who contacted Union County Bomb Squad”, Bollwage said. “There are no injuries & law enforcement personnel are at the scene processing evidence”, according to a tweet from FBI Newark account.
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There was a suspicious package with multiple improvised explosive devices this evening at the Elizabeth Train Station in NJ. Following that explosion that injured twenty-nine people, a witness discovered a second pressure cooker bomb left on the street outside of her apartment.
