The law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said two officers were shot in the gun battle.
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NY police announced earlier they are looking for Rahami for questioning in connection with the Saturday bombing in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, which injured 29 people.
Law enforcement is now looking for a suspect in the bombings, 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan, according to The Guardian.
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Ahmad Khan Rahami.
Rahami is a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo both said in interviews Monday that they suspected the Chelsea bombing on Saturday, which resulted in 29 injuries, may be linked to organized terror. Ahmad Khan Rahami captured after a shootout with police.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that investigators so far have not found any connection to global terrorist groups, and there is no further immediate threat to the city.
Two men report finding a backpack – later found to contain five explosives – atop a garbage can near the Elizabeth, NJ train station.
Early Monday, FBI agents swarmed an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant in Elizabeth that’s tied to Rahami.
As the investigation continued into the blast that injured 29 people in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday night, the FBI questioned five people early Monday following a vehicle stop in Brooklyn.
Rahami appears to be a central suspect, a senior law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the investigation told NBC News.
“Our investigators are continuing to do really good work to get to the bottom of what exactly happened here”.
Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, touring the site of Saturday’s blast that injured 29 people in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood, said there did not appear to be any link to worldwide terrorism.
NY and New Jersey residents woke up to the news of yet another explosion in the area Monday morning as they prepared to start their commutes amid heightened security.
Authorities said Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested after a police-involved shooting in Linden, New Jersey.
Cuomo said Sunday that it didn’t appear the blast in NY was linked to worldwide terror group, but on Monday he appeared to backtrack. Thirty-one people were injured in the NY blast.
In another development late Sunday, a suspicious device found in a trash can near a New Jersey train station was being examined, and service on the busy Northeast Corridor line has been suspended.
Investigators of last weekend’s bombings have released an image of two men who took a suitcase they found on a city street, possibly without realizing a wired pressure cooker they removed from it and left behind could have blown them to bits. There turned out to be five devices in the bag.
One of the devices detonated while a police robot was trying to disarm it.
The city’s fire department said none of the victims had life-threatening injuries, but witnesses reported seeing victims cut by shrapnel, metal fragments and glass. “And there’s no better example of that than the people of NY and New Jersey”, the president said.
Prosecutors said surveillance video shows Rahami rolling a suitcase down the street, then abandoning it on the sidewalk where that second device was found.
NYPD and FBI Bomb technicians rendered the device safe.
After an officer arrived and recognized Rahami, Rahami shot the officer, who was saved by his bulletproof vest, authorities said.
Homemade pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260.
On Sunday, a team of five Federal Bureau of Investigation agents searched an Uber driver’s vehicle that had been damaged in the Manhattan blast, ripping off the door panels inside as they examined it for evidence.
The explosion came just after 8:30 p.m. ET at 133 W. 23rd St., between Sixth and Seventh Avenue in a neighborhood known for its vibrant nightlife. The neighborhood has many late-night and after-hours music clubs.
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Donald Trump patted himself on the back Monday morning for talking about the explosion in NY nearly immediately after it happened, labeling it a “bomb” before details had been confirmed to the public by authorities.
