Details of the 8:30 p.m. ET incident in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan were still emerging throughout the Colorado event and into the morning hours on the East Coast.
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Hours later a second device, believed to be a bomb made out of a pressure cooker, was found about four blocks away from the initial blast.
The injured were treated and released from area hospitals by Sunday morning, the New York Daily News reported.
“Thankfully, none of these are life-threatening injuries and the 24 patients that have been removed are not in serious condition other than the one patient with a puncture wound”, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said a press conference.
Investigators Sunday combed the area of the blast for evidence and examined video footage as 1,000 additional New York State Police troopers and National Guard troops have been dispatched to bus terminals, airports and subway stations to beef up security. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it is an intentional act but not related to terrorism.
Police investigated 27th Street for a secondary device as public officials scrambled to reassure the city’s 8.4 million residents. “At this time there is no evidence of worldwide terrorism connection with this incident”, Cuomo said near the scene of the explosion on W. 23rd St. near Seventh Ave. around 8:30 p.m. Saturday. “Now, I want to be clear: Whatever the cause, whatever the intention here, New Yorkers will not be intimidated”, the mayor said.
Clinton said it was important for the nation to support the first responders and the investigators trying to determine what happened, and appeared to call Trump out for speaking without official confirmation.
Officials found a secondary device, a pressure cooker linked with wires and a cell phone, blocks away from the explosion..
“Just before I got off the plane, a bomb went off in NY, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on, but boy, we are living in a time”, Trump said.
Metro posted the video showing the explosion which caused panic among the people walking on the streets.
What we don’t know: Some of the victims closest to the explosion were at a loss for how the blast occurred.
“There is no evidence at this point of a terror connection”, de Blasio said. “We have to let this investigation unfold”. I saw pieces of metal – not large, but not small either.
“I heard a big boom”, said Luke McConnell, who was visiting from Colorado and had been headed toward a restaurant on West 27th Street. “I can’t see.” Lopez took her by the arm to an ambulance that had just arrived on the scene.
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“A bomb exploding in NY is obviously an act of terrorism”, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Sunday, vowing that authorities will catch whoever is responsible.
