He said one was struck in a protective vest and the other in the hand.
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The official says two officers were shot in the encounter in Linden, New Jersey.
Saturday’s bombings and subsequent finds came just days before the annual General Assembly of the United Nations in NY. He says the president also expressed appreciation for the work of first responders.
Rahami’s wife, Asia Bibi Rahami, and his mother reportedly left the US days before the attacks were carried out, raising additional questions about the bombings in Chelsea and the Jersey shore.
In Linden, N.J., CNN reported that Ahmad Khan Rahami was apprehended after an armed confrontation with police Monday.
The man, a naturalized US citizen, lived with his family in an apartment in Elizabeth over a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father.
William Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director in NY, said there were no indications Rahami was on law enforcement’s radar at the time of the bombings.
A neighbour said Rahami had recently started dressing in more traditional clothes such as long tunics and sandals, which she said was how his father dressed.
Rahami’s arrest came just hours after police issued a bulletin and photo of Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan who lives in Elizabeth in an apartment above a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father a few miles from the Newark airport.
One of the devices detonated while robot police was trying to disarm the device. The race was canceled and no one was injured.
Spokesman Josh Earnest says the White House is following the situation closely. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rahami had a lawyer who could comment on the charges. Authorities said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are also investigating the discovery Sunday of five devices in a backpack near a New Jersey train station.
Citing the FBI, New Jersey State Police said yesterday that the bombings in Chelsea and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park were connected.
Khan was born in Afghanistan but was given a U.S. passport in 2003 and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2011, according to CNN.
On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to worldwide terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that.
Twenty-nine people were hurt when the bomb exploded in the upmarket Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night, damaging buildings, shattering glass and sending shrapnel flying. All have been released from a hospital. Officials haven’t yet confirmed whether the attack in Minnesota was linked to the explosions in NY and New Jersey, and no terrorists groups have yet claimed any association with them.
Police in New Jersey arrested a man on Monday who is thought to have been behind multiple bomb attacks in NY and New Jersey that occurred over the weekend.
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Ahmad Khan Rahami.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called the bombing an “intentional” act but declined to call it terrorism before police had any tangible notion of motive.
“What we didn’t know yesterday, and we don’t know yet, is: Is anyone taking credit for it and is it linked to worldwide terrorism?”
The official said two devices found in New York City included pressure cookers, similar to the devices used in the 2013 attack at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded hundreds. But authorities have not drawn any connection between the bloodshed there and the bombings.
Late Sunday evening, officials were notified about five suspicious devices located in trash cans.
An explosion in Manhattan on Saturday injured 29 people.
He will be transported to Manhattan to face the charges, said federal prosecutors in NY.
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“The evidence might suggest a foreign connection”, Cuomo said in television interviews on Monday morning. Both said Monday that appears to be changing.
