A pipe bomb that exploded in Seaside, New Jersey, earlier Saturday, forcing the cancellation of a running race, appeared to be of a different design, Cuomo said.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says there’s no evidence that an explosion that rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood, injuring 29 people, had any link to worldwide terrorism.
“If it is an act of terrorism, we’re going to come out and say it”. The Islamic State militant group quickly claimed responsibility for the Minnesota attack by a man who made references to Allah and asked at least one person if he or she was Muslim before he assaulted the person. Also on Saturday, nine people were stabbed in St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1,300 miles (2,100 km) away. The attacker was shot dead by an off-duty police officer. “Officer Falconer was there at the right time and the right place”.
As of midday Sunday, investigators had not named any suspects. Though, all officials stopped short of calling the incident an act of terrorism, saying if the investigation determines it was a terrorist act they will call it as such.
But law enforcement officials and the city’s mayor cautioned that without a known motive, it’s too soon to call the bombing a terror attack.
New York Police Department Chief of Special Operations Harry J. Wedin tweeted for people to avoid the area. Isis and the threat of Islamist terrorism have been dominant themes but the risk of domestic terrorism has gone largely undiscussed.
As to whether the city would take a new approach to the proliferation of dumpsters, O’Neill said they are very much “a fact of life” for New Yorkers.
The sources also told the Post that a handwritten letter, part of which was in Arabic, was found inside a plastic bag that held the second device.
“Was it a political motivation, a personal motivation. That’s what we know”.
The first device, which exploded on West 23rd Street at about 8:30 p.m., appeared to have been caused by an explosive device placed inside a toolbox in front of a building undergoing construction, the law enforcement official said. Officials said 29 people were injured.
Some social media users said the sound of the explosion was heard as far away as Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River.
Police refused to give many more details on Sunday, although New York Police Commissioner James O Neill said that “components indicative of an IED” (improvised explosive device) had been found. He said there was no known link to global terrorism.
Blasio however, described the explosion as “an intentional act”.
The bombs used in the Boston Marathon bombing were built using instructions that the pair of brothers behind the attack found on al Qaeda’s “Inspire” online magazine. Two Islamist-radicalized brothers from Chechnya committed the attacks to retaliate against US foreign policy. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that the second device discovered a few blocks from the scene appeared to be a pressure cooker attached to wiring and a cellphone.
Mr Obama, who was expected to arrive in NY yesterday, is among dozens of world leaders who will be in the city this week for the UN General Assembly. But there was little else Sunday night to link the attacks directly. “We will be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here”. Of the 29 injuries, only one is reported to be serious.
He pointed out that security outside the U.N.is the responsibility of the host country.
Technicians in Quantico, Virginia, were examining evidence from the Manhattan bombing, described by witnesses as a deafening blast that shattered storefront windows and injured bystanders with shrapnel in the mostly residential neighborhood on the city’s west side.
The fellow Republican told CNN’s “State of the Union” that Mr. Trump’s handling of the situation “was perfectly appropriate”.
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One victim was expected to remain there, but the other seven patients had already been released or were expected to be let go shortly, officials said.
