Federal and local authorities are investigating another suspicious item after a backpack was found containing up to five devices in New Jersey on Sunday. Officials said no evacuations were necessary.
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The explosion occurred Saturday night on 23rd Street and injured 29 people.
The New York Police Department says the controlled detonation took place at a police facility in the Bronx on Sunday evening.
The New York incident was “obviously an act of terrorism” yet doesn’t appear to be tied to worldwide terrorism, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday.
By Sunday morning, all 29 injured victims had been released from hospitals, the governor said.
Investigators have spent Sunday sifting through blast remnants, examining video and scouring the scene.
However, her Republican rival Donald Trump was more forthright, saying: ‘We better get very, very tough.
An additional 1,000 state troopers and members of the National Guard were placed at transit hubs and other points throughout New York City and extra police officials were patrolling Manhattan, officials said. “This was an intentional act, but we do not know the motivation”.
In New York, law enforcement officials and the mayor said that without knowing who’s responsible or what the motive was, it’s too soon to call the Saturday bombing a terror attack.
What we know: Investigators found “some components indicative of an IED” at the explosion site, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said.
Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that the NY blast “raises the stakes on the need to be really, really smart in dealing with challenges like this, both with the law enforcement community but also to make sure we’re doing what we can to stop any lone wolf attacks in the United States”. “It’s a bad thing that’s going on in our world and in our country and we are going to get tough and smart and vigilant”. It was taken from the scene by a bomb removal robot.
Agents with the FBI pulled over a auto on a highway in Brooklyn on Sunday night and were questioning the vehicle’s occupants in connection with the investigation into the New York City bombing that injured 29 people, authorities said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the ongoing investigation. Four blocks away on 27th Street, a pressure-cooker device was found with a piece of paper with writing on it close by, officials said. He noted that the device in Manhattan appeared to be different than a pipe bomb explosion earlier Saturday in New Jersey and said he didn’t believe the two were connected.
A federal law enforcement official told the AP on Sunday that the FBI was evaluating a claim of responsibility for the New York City bombing on the social blogging service Tumblr.
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“If it is an act of terrorism, we’re going to come out and say it”.
What we don’t know: Why did the bomb go off in that location? “We’re not going to let them instill fear”.
“This should steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups”, Clinton said, using an alternative acronym for the Islamic State. “I want New Yorkers to be confident when they go back to work on Monday that NY is up and running and we’re doing everything that we need to do”.
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Although no global group had claimed responsibility, New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo said detonating a bomb in New York City “is obviously an act of terrorism”. “I want to reaffirm what I said last night, but again we do not know the motivation, we do not know the nature of it”, the mayor said.
