President Barack Obama’s office said he was briefed on the matter. The police chief said the suspect asked at least one victim if he or she was Muslim.
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Twenty-nine people were injured in the Saturday night blast.
– The presidential candidates had very different responses to the incidents in NY and New Jersey. The explosion occurred in a highly populated area, especially on a Saturday night, officials say. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that an explosion in the Chelsea neig.
The blast, according to a Reuters witness, occurred on 23rd Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the fashionable downtown neighborhood of Chelsea. All of them have been released from the hospital.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are examining remnants of the bomb plus an unexploded device found four blocks away and another device that exploded in New Jersey on Saturday to see if they are connected.
The second device was reportedly removed by a robot and taken to the Bronx for detonation.
New reports have stated the explosion came from a dumpster. He told the Colorado Springs crowd that “a bomb went off in NY, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on” – that’s really just a few minutes after the incident.
“Tonight, New York City experienced a very bad incident”, de Blasio said at a news conference near the scene.
Caldwell reported from Washington.
But CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem said it’s too soon to label the blast a terror attack without knowing the motivations behind the explosion.
In one video obtained by police, a man is seen crossing the street in the vicinity of where the original object was left.
In St. Cloud, Minnesota, police said multiple people were injured at a shopping mall Saturday evening in an attack that possibly involved both a shooting and stabbing.
Another suspicious device was later found nearby and removed by authorities.
The Fire Department of NY said 29 people were injured, with 24 taken to hospital. The Times further reports that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had dubbed the explosion “an intentional act” but added there was no link to terrorism and no initial claims of responsibility for the blast. 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. Most of the injuries were minor.
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on State of the Union on Sunday morning about the supposed contrast between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in their responses to the explosions Saturday in NY, editing out Clinton’s reference to “bombings” to create a false distinction.
Pressure cookers were used as explosive devices in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260 in 2013.
De Blasio, speaking at a news conference at the scene around 11:15 p.m., said “injuries are significant”.
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City officials said police located the explosive device in the street next to a trash bin. Officials said 29 people were injured.
