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No one has been charged, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said.
The driver, MD Alam, of Brooklyn, had just picked up three passengers and was driving along 23rd Street when the explosion occurred, shattering the car’s windows and leaving gaping holes in the rear passenger-side door.
David Martinez and Brenda Abero, who were among the injured and taken to New York’s Bellevue Hospital, both said they felt lucky to be alive. The latest blast came less than a week after law enforcement agencies around the country were on heightened alert for the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, airline-hijacking attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Video shows the same man with what appears to be the same duffel bag on West 27th street about 10 minutes later, multiple law enforcement sources said.
The US has a dedicated laboratory where forensic scientists analyse the remains of every significant explosive device the security services recover. The suspicious package exploded after the bomb robot cut a wire in an effort to disarm the device. They want to make you worry about going into New York City.
Earlier in the day, another official said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was aware of the posting and evaluating its authenticity.
In the blast in New Jersey on Saturday morning, an IED in a back exploded around the time that participants in 5-km charity race to raise funds for ex-servicemen were to have passed the site.
It was unclear who was behind the blast and what motivated it. He called the explosion an “intentional act” but said there was no known “specific and credible threat against New York City”.
“We want to get this guy in for questioning”, de Blasio said on CNN. Police could not confirm yet whether it was an active device. Authorities are investigating it as a possible terrorist attack but have not drawn any connection between the bloodshed there and the bombings.
The New York explosion caused “significant property damage”, Cuomo said. He said the devices in New Jersey were “pipe bombs”, and those in Chelsea were not.
The Chelsea explosion left many rattled in a city that had marked the 15th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks only a week earlier and that was schedule to hold a United Nations meeting Monday to address the refugee crisis in Syria.
AP global security chief Danny Spriggs said Rahami worked night shifts at the AP building and often engaged colleagues in long political discussions, expressing sympathy for the Taliban and disdain for USA military action in Afghanistan.
Trump said the U.S. must use whatever lawful methods are available to obtain information from the apprehended suspect to get information before it is no longer timely.
Twenty-nine people were injured in the Saturday night blast.
The official who spoke to AP insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
Law enforcement officials work at the scene of Saturday night’s explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, September 18, 2016 in New York City.
Police are hunting for answers on what caused an explosion that injured 29 people in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, shortly before a second suspicious device was found nearby.
Investigators are still piecing together evidence for the Chelsea event.
Tannerite, which is often used in target practice to mark a shot with a cloud of smoke and small explosion, is legal to purchase and can be found in many sporting goods stores.
– Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
The bomb detonated in NY on Saturday, and another device discovered nearby, were both shrapnel-filled pressure cookers – similar to the bombs used at the 2013 Boston marathon, reports say.
But Bill de Blasio said Sunday that authorities don’t yet know who made it, who set it off or the motivation behind it. All of the injured have been released from the hospital.
“At this time there is no evidence of an global terrorism connection, but, it is very early in the investigation and it’s just starting”.
Investigators scrambled Sunday to find out who planted a bomb that rocked a bustling New York City neighborhood, scouring shrapnel, forensic traces and surveillance video for any link to an unexploded pressure-cooker device found just blocks away.
Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said the break in the case came late Monday morning, when the owner of a bar reported someone asleep in his doorway.
The pipe bomb exploded Saturday in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors. Most of the injuries were minor.
The Democratic governor also said that 1,000 additional law enforcement officers were being deployed as a precaution. On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered at an Elizabeth train station.
The officials also said that Ahmad Khan Rahami had traveled to Pakistan in recent years.
The blast is under investigation.
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AP spokesman Paul Colford said the news cooperative told law enforcement officials about Rahami’s work in Cranbury.
