It was found in a wastebasket, outside a neighborhood pub and located about 500 feet from a train trestle. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force of the blast.
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When the men saw explosives and wires, they dropped the bag and called police, he said, according to reports. No cell phones or electronic timing devices were found on the devices, Bollwage said.
Cellphones were discovered at the site of both the NY and New Jersey bombings, but no Tannerite residue was identified in the New Jersey bomb remnants, in which a black powder was detected, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to comment on the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
The attacks came as world leaders prepared to gather at the United Nations in NY for the annual General Assembly. During the process, one of the devices detonated.
“The robots that went in to disarm it, cut a wire and it exploded”, Bollwage said. He was captured in Linden, New Jersey, after he was discovered sleeping in the doorway of a bar.
New Jersey Transit officials warned that the police activity and heightened security concerns could create transportation disruptions on Monday, advising customers to “plan for delays”. A number of New York City subway routes have been affected by the incident.
According to media reports, two improvised explosives believed to have been built and left in separate locations by Chelsea explosion suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami were discovered, and one was disabled, by people rifling through the bomb bags for booty. All of the injured have since been released from the hospital.
A law enforcement official says the father of the man suspected in bombings in New York City and New Jersey had contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation following a 2014 stabbing to express concerns that his son was a terrorist.
FBI spokeswoman Kelly Langmesser says agents stopped “a vehicle of interest in the investigation” of the Manhattan explosion Sunday night. The statement said no one has been charged with a crime.
The investigation began when a pipe bomb blew up Saturday morning in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before a charity race to benefit Marines. He said now, investigators would “make sure that we get to the bottom of who’s involved and why”. “There’s no better example of that than the people of NY and New Jersey”, he said.
Federal authorities now believe that the explosion in Chelsea, where another explosive device was found nearby, was linked to as many as six explosive devices found just outside NY in Elizabeth, Homeland Security officials told Reuters.
“That’s what we have to do more work on”, said Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We’re not taking any options off the table”.
But now, sources told ABC News that they believe the three incidents are connected. The first device exploded in a dumpster, and a second unexploded device was found on West 27th St. a short time after.
Law enforcement officials may have gotten a lucky break thanks to not-so-smart moves from the bomber.
The summit, combined with heightened security following the bombing, will lead to “probably the largest security presence ever amassed”, Cuomo said early Monday on NY1.
A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that an explosion in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood appears to have come from a construction toolbox in front of a building.
The device was transported to the NYPD Bomb Squad facility at Rodman’s Neck Range in the Bronx.
Passengers said they were stuck on trains for hours Sunday night. A forensic examination of the device will be sent to the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia, police said.
The attacks came as world leaders prepared to gather at the United Nations in NY for the annual General Assembly this week, just days after the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Cuomo, touring the site of Saturday’s blast in Chelsea, said the unexploded pressure cooker device appeared “similar in design” to the bomb that exploded in Chelsea.
Cuomo acknowledged there might be an worldwide connection in the case.
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“I’m extremely concerned for the residents of the community, but more importantly extremely concerned for everyone in the state and country where someone can just go and drop a backpack into a garbage can that has multiple explosives in it with no timers and then you have to wonder how many people could have been hurt”, Bollwage said.
