The Afghan-born American wanted in connection with weekend bombings in NY and New Jersey was taken into custody on Monday following a shootout with police. He has been taken into custody after a shoot-out with police in Linden, New Jersey. But he said there was no specific and credible terror threat against New York City.
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Cell phones were discovered at the site of both bombings.
“I want to be very clear that this individual could be armed and risky”, Mayor Bill de Blasio of NY said Monday.
Five men have already been detained and questioned over Saturday’s bomb attack in the busy Manhattan district of Chelsea, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation stopped “a vehicle of interest” in Brooklyn on Sunday night.
“We’re not going to let them win”, Mr Cuomo said at the scene.
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.
As a police vehicle pulled up at the traffic light in front of the shop, the man fired about six shots at the cruiser, then continued down the street with police following him, Bilinskas said.
Authorities have identified a suspect in the Manhattan explosion case as a 28-year-old New Jersey resident of Afghan descent who may be armed and unsafe, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.
The FBI was searching for a New Jersey resident of Afghan descent in connection with an explosion in a New York City neighborhood and at a New Jersey train station.
No one was injured in the blast – most likely because registration problems delayed the start of the race, so no one was near the garbage can when the explosion happened.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that investigators so far have not found any connection to worldwide terrorist groups, and there is no further immediate threat to the city.
“The crudity of the devices in all three cases certainly doesn’t point to any group that’s been developing (improvised explosive devices) for years”, said a USA official involved in the investigation who requested anonymity to discuss the inquiry. Eastern time. The New York Police Department bomb squad and counterterrorism units responded to the scene.
“The FBI is investigating the Minnesota incident as a potential act of terrorism”.
No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said.
The two U.S. presidential candidates weighed in on the NY bombing.
“Right now, we’re not actively seeking anyone”, he said.
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. “Our country’s been weak”, he said when asked if he thought there would be more attacks.
Authorities in New York City are working to determine whether there was any connection between several explosive devices found in two states in two days.
No one was injured in the Saturday morning explosion along the route of a running race in Seaside Park, about 60 miles (97 km) south of Manhattan, New Jersey State Police said.
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One of the five bombs found in the bag exploded when police tried to disarm it with a robot around 12:30 a.m. Monday morning, but no injuries were reported.
