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The FBI and Homeland Security officials, along with the ATF arson and explosive task force were also at the scene.
Hillary Clinton says she has been briefed “about the bombings in NY and New Jersey and the attack in Minnesota”.
In a statement Sunday, the Democratic presidential candidate said law enforcement officials in NY and New Jersey need support as they investigate.
In this Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 frame from video provided by Orangetheory Fitness Chelsea, a door shatters after an explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of NY.
De Blasio said that, though injuries were significant, none of those hurt was likely to die.
The Saturday New York bombing went down within hours of a similar explosion in New Jersey.
The NYPD said that a controlled explosion of this device was taking place on Sunday between 4.30pm and 6.30pm near Rodman’s Neck in the Bronx.
A law enforcement official says federal investigators have discounted a claim of responsibility for the New York City bombing on the social blogging service Tumblr.
At a press conference, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio summed up the current situation: “Here’s what we know: It was intentional”.
De Blasio said investigators believe there is no connection to an earlier incident in New Jersey, where an explosion went off in a garbage can on the route of a Marine Corps charity run Saturday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, touring the site of the blast in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, said there didn’t appear to be any link to worldwide terrorism.
A second, unexploded bomb was found several blocks to the north, on West 27th Street, during a subsequent sweep of the vicinity.
“A bomb exploding in NY is obviously an act of terrorism but it is not linked to worldwide terrorism”, he said.
“But we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of a motivation was behind this”. Was it a personal motivation? “We know there was a bombing”.
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. The devices contained different materials and didn’t appear to be connected, officials said, but added that they weren’t ruling anything out yet. This news story is related to Print/150956-29-injured-in-New-York-blast/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne. It injured 29 people, and all were reported to have been released from hospital by Sunday morning.
The investigation into the Manhattan explosion came as world leaders descend on the United Nations for a meeting Monday to address the refugee crisis and the Syrian conflict.
Without knowing the motivations behind the explosion it’s premature to label the blast a terror attack, “unless you want to define terrorism as any violent act in an urban area”, she said.
Watch Gov. Cuomo’s full briefing here: Multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News that Tannerite, an explosive used for making exploding targets for firearms practice, is the likely source of the West 23rd Street detonation.
On Sunday, Clinton stayed largely silent for much of the day as facts were rolling in, but she criticized Trump late Saturday night for declaring the explosion a “bomb” at a Colorado rally before officials had confirmed the cause of the blast.
The bomb in Manhattan appeared to have been placed near a large dumpster in front of a building undergoing construction, another law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation, told the AP.
Investigators found a “possible secondary device” a few blocks away at 27th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, the New York Police Department said on Twitter shortly after 11 p.m.
Homemade pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260.
Officials solicited tips from the public, telling reporters at a news conference in the New York Police Department’s headquarters that they didn’t know who set off the bomb or why.
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The Democratic governor also said that 1,000 additional law enforcement officers were being deployed as a precaution. Investigators looked into it and didn’t consider it relevant to the case, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. But now it will be even more intense, de Blasio said.
