“We know a lot more than we did just 24 hours ago”, de Blasio told ABC television.
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Rahami’s last known address was listed in neighboring Elizabeth, and federal authorities conducted a raid there Monday at an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant operated by Rahami’s father.
On Monday, a device found in a backpack near the Elizabeth train station exploded while a bomb squad robot was trying to disarm it, authorities said. No one was injured.
What we know: Twenty-nine people were injured when an explosion went off in the Chelsea neighborhood of NY at around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.
However early indications were that the attack was intentional, de Blasio said.
The bombs in NY were made out of pressure cookers and filled with shrapnel like BBs and ball bearings, according to CNN.
De Blasio said that the city “experienced a very bad incident”.
The US Homeland Security Department was “actively monitoring and participating in the investigations” of both the NY and New Jersey explosions, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
“Maybe it could stop something, but sadly to say, if they are determined to do it, somehow they will find a way”, says commuter Kahali Johnson.
No one has been charged with any crime, and the investigation is continuing, Ms Langmesser said.
A federal law enforcement official says three bombs found in NY and New Jersey over the weekend had one component in common: a flip-style cellphone.
New Jersey Transit says service has been suspended between Newark Liberty Airport and Elizabeth.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was taken into custody by police in Linden, New Jersey, law enforcement officials announced, after a brief altercation. They are also looking into his possible connection to bombs Saturday in Seaside Park and Sunday in Elizabeth. The race was cancelled and no one was hurt.
Meanwhile, a man who stabbed nine people at a mall in central Minnesota before being shot dead was a “soldier of the Islamic State”, the militant group’s news agency said on Sunday. The St. Cloud police chief said the man reportedly made at least one reference to Allah and asked a victim if he or she was Muslim before attacking.
He spoke around the time police in New Jersey arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan with an address in Elizabeth, New Jersey. “We always have to worry about that in these types of situations”, said chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Michael McCaul (R-Texas). “Folks around here, they don’t get scared”.
“The investigation is now focusing on one individual”, he said.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged a massive showing of security Monday as world leaders gather in Manhattan, two days after a bombing in the borough injured 29 people. A pressure cooker device was also found blocks away, but it didn’t explode.
Police spokesman J. Peter Donald said on Twitter that the explosion happened at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on West 23rd Street, which is a major thoroughfare with many restaurants.
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A Federal Bureau of Investigation poster described Rahami as a resident of Elizabeth, where agents were executing a search warrant on Monday morning after explosive devices were found at a train station in that city, Mayor Bollwage told CNN.
