It was one of up to five devices found in a backpack inside a rubbish bin near the station in Elizabeth, according to the city’s mayor.
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A day earlier, two men walking down a New York City street made off with a rolling backpack that someone had left on the sidewalk about 15 minutes earlier.
Nine persons were also injured on Saturday night in a stabbing attack at a mall in the USA state of Minnesota. The police, in turn, called the Union County bomb squad, and the investigation was quickly turned over to the F.B.I. and the New Jersey State Police, Mr. Bollwage said. Northeast Corridor and North Jersey Coast Line trains have resumed regular weekday service, but the agency says customers should plan for delays.
The homeless men were going through the trash can looking for anything of value when they found the bag.
After finding that the backpack contained “wires and a pipe”, the mayor said, the men dropped the item in the street and contacted the Elizabeth Police Department around 8:45 p.m.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters that while there was no apparent link between the Chelsea explosion and the one in New Jersey or worldwide terrorism, the blast was terrorism “generically” because it was meant to instill fear.
– On Sunday night, the FBI and NY police stopped a vehicle of interest in the investigation, according to a statement from the FBI.
NJ Transit service was suspended early Monday between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth, and New Jersey-bound Amtrak trains were being held at New York Penn Station, officials said, while New York-bound Amtrak trains were being held in Trenton.
Police sources told Patch’s NY edition that the airport line was being investigated.
NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe.
A mystery caller telephoned police hours after bombs were found in Manhattan to warn that there would be more attacks, a local newspaper has reported.
New York’s governor now says it looks like the Manhattan bombing could be an act of terrorism with a foreign connection.
The news of the suspicious bag at the Elizabeth station in New Jersey was first reported late Sunday, around the same time that the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it had taken five people into custody for questioning after a traffic stop on the Verrazano Bridge in connection with Saturday’s bombing in Manhattan that hurt 29 people.
“We do not believe those two are involved”, the mayor said. She wouldn’t provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press that five people in the auto were being questioned at an FBI building in Manhattan.
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“They probably saved hundreds of people”, Bollwage said. The FBI was leading the investigation and working to disarm the other four devices. Service has since been restored to both NJ Transit and Amtrak with delays.
