The investigation comes after 29 people were injured in a blast in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood. Experts said a large amount would be required to create a blast like the one Saturday night, as well as an accelerant or other ignitor. A police officer went to investigate and recognized the man as Rahami, police and the mayor said.
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On the same day a man stabbed and wounded eight people at a shopping mall in Minnesota, before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer. The man was conscious when he was taken away in an ambulance.
Beck says Los Angeles police are constantly assessing security threat levels in the wake Saturday’s two explosions. One was hit by shrapnel and another had high blood pressure.
Officials in NY said Sunday they were still trying to determine who was behind an explosion that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood and what the motivation was. The news from New York City rippled across the campaign trail Sunday with both presidential candidates commenting on the bombing.
While officials described all three as deliberate, criminal acts and were investigating them as potential “acts of terrorism”, they stopped short of characterising the motivation behind any of them until more evidence is uncovered.
Stepped-up security across the city is common as world leaders arrive for the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which is underway.
NY police say they’re looking for 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami in connection with the Chelsea bombing over the weekend.
Late Sunday, two senior law enforcement officials said they had identified a “person of interest” in the bombing, though they did not refer to that person as a suspect.
“This should steel our resolve to protect our country and defeat ISIS and other terrorist groups”, said Clinton, using another acronym for IS.
-Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
He added that while on Sunday officials didn’t know whether there was a foreign connection, he added that “today, I believe we’re going to find out that it was targeted by a foreign body”.
In the immediate aftermath of the New York bombing, de New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to worldwide terrorism. He said at first he thought it was thunder and lightning. He is a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan.
Trains resumed Monday morning after the New Jersey Transit suspended service going through Elizabeth station on Sunday night.
Authorities believe the three bombing incidents this weekend in Seaside Park, New Jersey, New York City, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, are related. A forensic examination of the device and its components will be conducted at the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia.
Authorities are seeking 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan.
Police were warned by an anonymous caller that more explosions would follow Saturday’s bombing in NY.
Investigators are trying to figure out whether the Chelsea bombing is connected to another explosion Saturday in New Jersey, which also may have also used a cell phone as a trigger.
A hazmat team was called to the scene and Union County Bomb Squad brought in a robot as trains on the Northeast Corridor between Newark Airport and Penn Station were cancelled. That device detonated, but no one was injured.
On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station.
The White House said President Barack Obama was apprised of the explosion.
He was expected to comment Monday afternoon after a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (HY’-dahr ahl ah-BAH’-dee) on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in NY.
We will not allow these type of people and these type of threats to disrupt our life in NY.
“A bomb exploding in NY is obviously an act of terrorism”, Cuomo said Sunday morning.
Mr Cuomo acknowledged there might be an global connection in the case. All have been released from a hospital.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is asking Emmys attendees to remain vigilant in the wake of explosions in New York City and New Jersey.
Ms Langmesser would not provide further details, but a government official and a law enforcement official who were briefed on the investigation said five people in the vehicle were being questioned at an FBI building in lower Manhattan.
– Surveillance videos showed the same man near the site of the explosion in Chelsea and where a pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away, several local and federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
Investigators have not determined if those two men are connected to the man with the duffel bag on both streets, the sources said.
A pipe bomb earlier exploded in a New Jersey coastal town ahead of a charity race on Saturday morning. The latest incident was Sunday night in Elizabeth, New Jersey, about 15 miles southwest of the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan.
Authorities in New York City are working to determine whether there was any connection between several explosive devices found in two states in two days.
“We did a traffic stop of a vehicle of interest in the investigation”, the FBI tweet said.
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No-one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is continuing.
