“We believe it was intentional”. And while there’s no sound on the CCTV tape, you can nearly hear the explosion, with how the camera and the ground shakes, and how the people move.
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The blast went off in a dumpster around 8:30 p.m. Saturday on 23rd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues.
He added that the building has not been evacuated and that an “extensive search” was being conducted. The official, who was not authorized to speak about an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said the device was found inside a plastic bag on West 27th Street.
That device – described by USA media as resembling a pressure cooker – was “safely removed by the NYPD for further analysis” early Sunday, tweeted police spokesman J. Peter Donald.
The explosion occurred late on Saturday in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. De Blasio said there is no connection between the explosions.
“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. The second device, a pressure cooker, was removed by authorities. Pix 11, New York’s local news station for the CW, reported that as many as 15 people were injured in Chelsea, where as NBC News reported that as many as 26 people were injured.
Of the 29 people who sustained injuries, 24 were taken to hospital with various degrees of scrapes and abrasions from glass and metal, said Fire Department commissioner Daniel Nigro.
He ran about a half-block away then turned around and ran back to the scene to help people.
A surveillance video that emerged Sunday of the explosion shows people strolling down West 23rd Street, some with shopping bags, and cars stopped at a red light.
Is there a connection to an explosion in New Jersey? . Violent crime has become rare in Manhattan and stringent security checks the norm in many areas since the 2001 Al-Qaeda hijackings destroyed the Twin Towers.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump moved ahead of New York City officials when he declared a “bomb went off” before officials had released details.
“I must tell you that just before I got off the plane a bomb went off in NY and nobody knows what’s going on”, Trump said.
“We better get very tough, folks”.
Hillary Clinton had a more measured response, the AP reports.
“I was telling (the victims) it was minor, but it was major”, he said.
The Chelsea explosion came hours after a pipe bomb that exploded in Seaside Park, N.J. The race was cancelled.
The clip is brief, just 45 seconds long, but it shows the terrifying explosion and immediate aftermath that rocked the Manhattan neighborhood.
The mayor said that the police department and all other agencies – including the city’s “anti-terror capacity in particular” – were on full alert.
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Even before the explosion, NY was tightening security for the start of this week’s U.N. General Assembly session, which is expected to bring 135 world leaders and dozens of foreign government ministers to the city.
