No one was injured in the Jersey blast.
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William Sweeney Jr., the FBI’s assistant director in NY, said there were no indications Rahami was on law enforcement’s radar at the time of the bombings.
“What we didn’t know yesterday, and we don’t know yet, is: Is anyone taking credit for it and is it linked to global terrorism?”
“We believe at this point in time this was an intentional act”.
Rahami lived with his family in Elizabeth in an apartment above a fried-chicken restaurant owned by his father, on a busy street a few miles from the Newark airport. No one was injured.
29 people were hurt, one seriously, after an explosion in the Chelsea area of Manhattan on Saturday night. In the immediate aftermath of that bombing, de Blasio and Cuomo were careful to say there was no evidence of a link to worldwide terrorism. Both said Monday that appeared to be changing.
De Blasio said that the city “experienced a very bad incident”. Cuomo said on MSNBC: “Today’s information suggests it may be foreign-related, but we’ll see where it goes”.
The alarm was raised in the New Jersey city of Elizabeth in the early hours of Monday morning after two men found a backpack containing the suspect devices in a bin.
Five people were stopped on Sunday night in a vehicle associated with Rahami but were questioned and released, Mr Sweeney said.
A law enforcement source told Fox News that a “number of individuals” who are possibly connected to the explosion were taken into custody and law enforcement officials told the Associated Press at least five men were being questioned.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation.
The investigation into the Chelsea bombing Saturday night continues as President Obama and the U.N. General Assembly converge on Manhattan for a summit on refugees.
Another video from 27th Street shows a man leave a piece of luggage on the sidewalk; that piece of luggage contained a bag with a pressure cooker inside, cell phone and wires attached.
No one was injured in the blast – most likely because registration problems delayed the start of the race, so no one was near the garbage can when the explosion happened.
The Manhattan explosion that injured 29 people had residents on high alert Sunday night when police questioned several people after a auto stop in Brooklyn as they work to determine whether the series of incidents over the weekend are connected, The Associated Press reported.
Police described the explosion on Saturday in NY and a stabbing attack in Minnesota as acts of terrorism.
“Yes, we have to move in that direction, but right now we’re not ready to make those calls yet”.
“Folks around here, they don’t get scared, they’re tough, they’re resilient, they go about their business every single day”, he said.
De Blasio also said investigators have so far found no connection to an incident earlier Saturday in Seaside Heights, N.J., in which a pipe bomb exploded near a Marine charity run.
No one has been charged with any crime, and the investigation is continuing, Langmesser said.
The New York City explosion Saturday night injured 29 people. The rudimentary design of the pressure-cooker-type and pipe bombs are reminiscent of similar devices used by Islamic State terrorists radicalized through online propaganda.
Late Sunday, five suspicious devices were found near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
He said the Union County bomb squad’s robotic device indicated the package could be a live bomb, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and state police will decide how to remove the device.
No injuries were reported as a result of the explosion, according to The Guardian.
Separately, de Blasio says New Yorkers should brace for a larger police presence throughout the city. Authorities moved the device to a secure NYPD facility in the Bronx around 2:30 a.m. Sunday and authorities were able to successfully open it Sunday evening.
There was no sign that the explosion was caused by a natural gas explosion, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said at the press conference.
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It has been reported the device that detonated in Manhattan and another device found nearby were both shrapnel-filled pressure cookers, similar to those used in the deadly attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013.
