The city was fighting the claims.
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Authorities said the buildings surrounding the blast are structurally stable, and a nearby train station sustained no damage. Likewise, the NYPD’s Chief of Department Carlos Gomez told reporters that they plan to beef up police presence in all five boroughs.
Also on Saturday, a man who authorities say referred to Allah wounded nine people in a stabbing rampage at a Minnesota mall before being shot to death by an off-duty police officer.
It was safely removed by a police robot and is now being analyzed. One was hit by shrapnel and another had high blood pressure.
Around the time Rahami was captured, President Barack Obama was in NY on a previously scheduled visit for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. Before there was any determination of the Chelsea explosion’s source, Trump nonetheless proclaimed at a campaign stop in Colorado that a bomb had gone off.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami could be armed and risky. Authorities were looking for him to question him about the bombings.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI’s joint terrorism task force was responding and that investigators did not believe the incident was due to a gas leak.
Authorities stopped a “vehicle of interest” in the NY blast last night near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in NY, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Rahami pulled a gun and shot the officer – who was wearing a bulletproof vest – in the torso, and more officers joined the gun battle and brought Rahami down, police Capt. James Sarnicki said.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation.
“The FBI is asking for assistance in locating Ahmad Khan Rahami”, FBI New York said in a tweet.
Mr Bollwage said he wasn’t willing to say that Elizabeth had become a target, and that it was possible that someone anxious about the authorities was trying to get rid of the package.
Gov. Cuomo Monday morning said he believes there was likely a foreign connection to the Chelsea bombing and that investigators are starting to focus on an individual suspect.
Cuomo was at Manhattan’s Penn Station to thank state troopers and National Guard members for their work protecting the public during and after the New York City and New Jersey shore town bombings.
The heightened alert comes both as a result of Saturday’s explosion and because world leaders are gathering here Monday for the United Nations General Assembly.
The wounds to both officers are not thought to be life-threatening, he said.
NEW YORK -New York police took a man into custody Monday in connection with bombings in Manhattan and Seaside Park, N.J.
NJ Transit services were suspended between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and Amtrak trains to New Jersey were being held at New York Penn Station.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara says his office is now figuring out exactly what to charge Rahami with.
On Saturday, a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, forcing the cancellation of a military charity 5K run.
Federal authorities have detained five persons with possible links to the blast though no one has been charged yet, CNN reported. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama will comment publicly later today. Amtrak trains heading to NY were held in Trenton early Monday. This news story is related to Latest/151023-Suspect-in-New-York-explosions-identified/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
Linden, New Jersey, Mayor Derek Armstead says the owner of a bar found the man sleeping in his hallway Monday morning.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan with an address in Elizabeth, N.J., should be considered armed and unsafe, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in one of a series of TV appearances just minutes after the photo was released. He is a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan.
“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”, Cuomo said.
On Sunday, Cuomo had effectively ruled out a link to global terrorism, saying there was no evidence to suggest that. All have been released from a hospital.
“I was sitting in my apartment, and all of a sudden I heard a big boom, and I thought to myself wait a minute, it can’t be thundering and lightning at this hour, and then all of a sudden auto horns went off, and I thought oh my god this isn’t lightning, this is too loud – this is a bomb”, said Stanhope. It said, “WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male”.
The FBI says Rahami should be considered armed and unsafe.
Cuomo acknowledged there might be an global connection in the case.
A second pressure cooker device found four blocks away was disassembled yesterday. On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station.
FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” of the Manhattan explosion Sunday night. There was at least one serious injury from the incident, officials said.
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The explosion sent a dumpster flying more than 150 feet down the sidewalk and shattered windows more than a block away, a senior law enforcement official said.
