Christian Bollwage, the mayor of Elizabeth, said that two men found a bag containing five devices in a trash can at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
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Meanwhile, New Jersey Transit service trains resumed services at 5.30 am on Monday, but they faced residual delays because service was suspended after the devices were found.
The backpack in Elizabeth was discovered by two men scavenging trash on Sunday evening after discovering wires and a pipe. At least one of the devices exploded while authorities were trying to disarm them.
Earlier Monday, just after midnight, an explosive device detonated during a police attempt to disarm it after a bomb squad was called in, in the third New York City area incident involving what appear to be improvised bombs. Thirty-one people were injured in the NY blast.
Authorities are not certain if the bomb was placed at the New Jersey location or if it was discarded to elude investigators.
Also on Sunday night, the FBI pulled over a auto on a highway in Brooklyn and were questioning the vehicle’s occupants in connection with the investigation into the bombing, authorities said.
Authorities said they do not yet know if the bombs in Elizabeth and Seaside Park are connected to the bombing that injured 29 people in the Chelsea area of Manhattan Saturday night.
Mobile phones were discovered at the site of both the NY and New Jersey bombings, but no Tannerite residue was identified in the New Jersey bomb remnants, in which a black powder was detected, said the official.
The remaining four devices will be transferred in protective cases to a local site and then will be taken to the Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory at Quantico, Virginia, Bollwage said.
Earlier, the backpack with several pipe bombs, went off when the bomb squad were investigating it, the reports said. A second blast in Manhattan injured 29 people, and an unexploded pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away.
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.
“The evidence might suggest a foreign connection”, Cuomo said in television interviews on Monday morning.
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The Manhattan blast followed an earlier pipe bomb explosion on Saturday morning along the route of a running race in New Jersey, which injured no one and is being investigated.
