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.
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The blasts also came on the same day as IS said one of its “soldiers” was responsible for a stabbing rampage that wounded at least eight people at a shopping centre in Minnesota. “We have to let this investigation unfold”.
“Think of a jigsaw puzzle out in the street right now”, NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Sunday afternoon.
The incident occurred just three days before the opening of 71st Session of the UN General Assembly in the UN Headquarters in NY. The public can also get in touch with Wisma Putra at 03-8887 4570 (24-hour hotline).
NY media said the vehicle’s five passengers were in custody for questioning.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, touring the site of Saturday’s blast that injured 29 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, said there didn’t appear to be any link to global terrorism.
Leaders from all over the world have descended on the famous city of some 8.5 million for the annual UNGA gathering and related meetings.
“We know it was a very serious incident, but we have a lot more work to do to be able to say what kind of motivation was behind this”, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters Sunday.
“We have two separate crime scenes”, O’Neill said, adding that the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are involved in the investigation.
“We’re going to be very careful and patient to get to the full truth here”, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.
NY will see a stepped up security presence, with an additional almost 1,000 state police and National Guard deployed to airports, bus terminals and subway stations, officials said.
NY governor Andrew Cuomo said the extra officers will be placed at bus and subway stations as well as airports as a precaution.
“Now, I want to be clear whatever the cause, whatever the intention here, New Yorkers will not be intimidated”, the mayor said.
Three law enforcement sources told NBC News investigators at the second location were examining what appeared to be a pressure cooker with “tape, wires and a cell phone” left on the sidewalk.
There were up to four timed explosives but only one detonated, Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the Ocean County prosecutor, told CNN.
Witnesses say the explosion blew out the windows of businesses and scattered debris in the area, but officials said no evacuations were necessary.
The army officials said the rebels entered the sprawling camp after crossing a stream and breaching the fencing Saturday night.
Local police said the attack “made some references to Allah”, but the motivation of the attack was unclear.
De Blasio said investigators believe there is no connection to an earlier incident in New Jersey, where an explosion went off in a garbage can on the route of a Marine Corps charity run Saturday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the explosions in NY or New Jersey.
As for the pressure cooker, the NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe. “And that’s how we will prosecute it”, he added. The New Jersey race was cancelled and no one was injured.
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The event was deemed as “an intentional attack” in at 23rd Street and 6th Avenue in Manhattan, New York. A USA official familiar with information circulating inside the government said the motive remained unknown and insufficient evidence had been gathered to link the two NY bombs.
